National Instruments Measurement Studio Creating a Measurement Studio NI-488.2 or NI-VISA Application

Chapter 4 Developing with Measurement Studio

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You can create an NI-DAQmx .NET user control with Measurement Studio

that provides a default graphical user interface to an NI-DAQmx task. The

NI-DAQmx User Control wizard wraps a configured NI-DAQmx task class

in a user-friendly control. You can drop the generated user control from the

Visual Studio .NET Toolbox onto a form and use it just as you use any

Windows Forms control.

Tip For more information on how to create a user control, refer to the Using a DAQmx

Task Class in a Project topic of the NI Measurement Studio Help.

Creating a Measurement Studio NI-488.2 or NI-VISA

To create a Measurement Studio NI-488.2 or NI-VISA application, use the

Instrument I/O Assistant. The Instrument I/O Assistant, as shown in

Figure 4-3, integrates into Visual Studio .NET as a code designer. Use the

Add New Item wizard to add an instrumentation task to your project, and

use the Instrument I/O Assistant user interface to create and configure the

instrumentation task. The Instrument I/O Assistant generates a Visual

Basic .NET, Visual C#, or Visual C++ .NET class that includes the

functionality you configure in the user interface. Use this assistant to help

you write code that communicates with devices such as serial, Ethernet, or

GPIB instruments.