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in Meas
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NI Measurement Studio Help
, which
is f
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lly integrated with the Microsoft Vis
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this help file in Vis
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Measurement Studio»
NI Measurement Studio Help
.
To create an application in Vis
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follow these general steps:
1.
In Vis
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File»New»Project
to la
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Project dialog box.
2.
Find the Meas
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age yo
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want to
create a program in.
3.
Choose a project type. Yo
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add DAQ tasks as a part of this step.
ANSI C without NI Application Software
The
NI-DAQmx Help
contains API overviews and general information
abo
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t meas
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Start»All Programs»National
Instruments»NI-DAQmx Help
.
The
NI-DAQmx C Reference Help
describes the NI-DAQmx Library
f
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nctions, which yo
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can
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se with National Instr
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ments data acq
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devices to develop instr
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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, yo
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can
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se
NI-DAQmx to create applications
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sing Vis
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witho
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t Meas
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need Microsoft Vis
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2003 or Microsoft Vis
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dio 2005 for the API doc
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mentation to be
installed.
The installed doc
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meas
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nction reference. This help is f
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lly
integrated into the Vis
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al St
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dio .NET doc
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mentation. To view the
NI-DAQmx .NET doc
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mentation, 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 f
u
nction reference. Expand
NI Measurement Studio Help»NI Measurement Studio .NET Class
Library»Using the Measurement Studio .NET Class Libraries
to view
concept
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al topics for
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sing NI-DAQmx with Vis
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Basic .NET.
