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Measurement Studio User Manual
Glossary
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ActiveX
Set of Microsoft technologies for reusable software components. Formerly
called
ActiveX control
Reusable software component that adds functionality to any ActiveX
control container through exposed properties, methods, and events. The
Measurement Studio data acquisition, user interface, and analysis controls
are examples of ActiveX controls.
ActiveX control
container
Development environment that fully supports ActiveX controls and
integrates them into its own environment using COM. An ActiveX control
container enables you to specify how ActiveX controls interact with the
environment through environment properties. Visual Basic is an example
of an ActiveX control container.
analog I/O
Reading or writing data in continuously variable physical quantities,
such as voltage or current.
annotate
Adding text, arrows, or shapes to describe or highlight a point or region on
a graph.
ANSI C
C programming language defined by the American National Standards
Institute.
API
Application Programming Interface. A specification of software functions
and their input and return parameters.
assembly
A collection of one or more files that are versioned and deployed as a unit.
An assembly is the primary building block of a .NET Framework
application. All managed types and resources are contained within an
assembly and are marked either as accessible only within the assembly or
as accessible from code in other assemblies.
asynchronous
Function that begins an operation and returns control to the program prior
to the completion or termination of the operation.
