Agilent Technologies InfiniiVision 3000 X-Series, Programmer'S Manual

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Programming Examples
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Cut- and- paste the code that follows into the Visual Basic .NET source
file.
5 Edit the program to use the VISA address of your oscilloscope.
6 Add a reference to the SCPI.NET 3.0 driver:
a Right- click the project you wish to modify (not the solution) in the
Solution Explorer window of the Microsoft Visual Studio
environment.
b Choose
Add Reference...
.
c In the Add Reference dialog, select the
Browse
tab, and navigate to
the ScpiNetDrivers folder.
• Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Agilent\
Command Expert\ScpiNetDrivers
• Windows 7: C:\ProgramData\Agilent\Command Expert\
ScpiNetDrivers
d
Select the .dll file for your oscilloscope, for example
AgInfiniiVision3000X_01_20.dll
; then, click
OK
.
e Right- click the project you wish to modify (not the solution) in the
Solution Explorer window of the Microsoft Visual Studio environment
and choose
Properties
; then, select
"InfiniiVision.ScpiNetInstrumentApp" as the Startup object .
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Build and run the program.
For more information, see the SCPI.NET driver help that comes with
Agilent Command Expert.
'
' Agilent SCPI.NET Example in Visual Basic .NET
' -------------------------------------------------------------------
' This program illustrates a few commonly used programming
' features of your Agilent oscilloscope.
' -------------------------------------------------------------------
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Imports Agilent.CommandExpert.ScpiNet.AgInfiniiVision3000X_01_20
Namespace InfiniiVision
Class ScpiNetInstrumentApp
Private Shared myScope As AgInfiniiVision3000X
Public Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())
Try
Dim strScopeAddress As String
'strScopeAddress = "a-mx3054a-60028.cos.agilent.com";
strScopeAddress = _
"TCPIP0::a-mx3054a-60028.cos.agilent.com::inst0::INSTR"
Console.WriteLine("Connecting to oscilloscope...")