National Instruments Measurement Studio Measurement Studio Resources

Chapter 1 Introduction to Measurement Studio

Measurement Studio Resources

As you work with Measurement Studio, you might need to consult other

resources. For detailed Measurement Studio help, including function

reference and in-depth documentation on developing with Measurement

Studio, refer to the NI Measurement Studio Help within the Visual

Studio .NET environment. The NI Measurement Studio Help is fully

integrated with the Visual Studio .NET help. You must have Visual

Studio .NET installed to view the online help, and you must have the

Microsoft .NET Framework SDK 1.1 installed in order for links from

Measurement Studio help topics to .NET Framework help topics to work.

You can launch the NI Measurement Studio Help in the following ways:

• From the Windows Start menu, select Start»All Programs»National

Instruments»Measurement Studio 7.1 for VS .NET 2003»

Measurement Studio Documentation. The help launches in a

stand-alone help viewer.

• From Visual Studio .NET, select Help»Contents to view the Visual

Studio .NET table of contents. The NI Measurement Studio Help is

listed in the table of contents.

• From Visual Studio .NET, select Measurement Studio»

NI Measurement Studio Help. The help launches within the

application.

Tip As you work through this manual, you will see italicized references to relevant help

topics. You can find these topics by using the table of contents in the NI Measurement

Studio Help.

The following resources also are available to provide you with information

about Measurement Studio.

• Examples—Measurement Studio installs examples to the following

paths, depending on whether you have previously installed

Measurement Studio on your machine.

If you have previously installed Measurement Studio for

Windows 2000/XP, Version 7.0, the example programs are installed to

the following directories:

– Visual Basic .NET or Visual C#—Program Files\National

Instruments\MeasurementStudio70\DotNET\Examples

– Visual C++ .NET—Program Files\National

Instruments\MeasurementStudio70\VCNET\Examples