NI USB-9201/9221 User Guide and Specifications
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ni.com
ANSI C without NI Application Software
The
NI-DAQmx Help
contains API overviews and general information
about measurement concepts. Select
Start»All Programs»National
Instruments»NI-DAQ»NI-DAQmx Help
.
The
NI-DAQmx C Reference Help
describes the NI-DAQmx Library
functions, which you can use with National Instruments data acquisition
devices to develop instrumentation, acquisition, and control applications.
Select
Start»All Programs»National Instruments»NI-DAQ»
NI-DAQmx C Reference Help
.
.NET Languages without NI Application Software
With the Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 or later, you can use
NI-DAQmx to create applications using Visual C# and Visual Basic
.NET without Measurement Studio. You need Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET 2003 or Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for the API documentation to
be installed.
The installed documentation contains the NI-DAQmx API overview,
measurement tasks and concepts, and function reference. This help is fully
integrated into the Visual Studio .NET documentation. To view the
NI-DAQmx .NET documentation, go to
Start»Programs»National
Instruments»NI-DAQ»NI-DAQmx .NET Reference Help
. Expand
NI Measurement Studio Help»NI Measurement Studio .NET Class
Library»Reference
to view the function reference. Expand
NI Measurement Studio Help»NI Measurement Studio .NET Class
Library»Using the Measurement Studio .NET Class Libraries
to view
conceptual topics for using NI-DAQmx with Visual C# and Visual
Basic .NET.
To get to the same help topics from within Visual Studio, go to
Help»Contents
. Select
Measurement Studio
from the
Filtered By
drop-down list and follow the previous instructions.
Device Documentation and Specifications
NI-DAQmx includes the Device Document Browser, which contains
online documentation for supported DAQ, SCXI, and switch devices, such
as help files describing device pinouts, features, and operation, and PDF
files of the printed device documents. You can find, view, and/or print the
documents for each device using the Device Document Browser at any
time by inserting the CD. After installing the Device Document Browser,
device documents are accessible from
Start»All Programs»National
Instruments»NI-DAQ»Browse Device Documentation
.
Note
You can also download these documents at
ni.com/manuals
.
