Chapter 3
Developing Your Application
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LabWindows/CVI
Within LabWindows/CVI, the NI-DNET function panel is located in
Library»NI-DNET
. Like other LabWindows/CVI function panels, the
NI-DNET function panel provides help for each function and the ability to
generate code.
The reference for each NI-DNET function is provided in the
NI-DNET
Programmer Reference Manual
. You can access reference for each
function directly from within the function panel.
The header file for NI-DNET is
nidnet.h
. The library for NI-DNET is
nidnet.lib
.
The NI-DNET software includes a full set of examples for
LabWindows/CVI. The NI-DNET examples are installed in the
LabWindows/CVI
directory under
samples\nidnet
. Each example
provides a complete LabWindows/CVI project (
.prj
file). A description
of each example is provided in comments at the top of the
.c
file.
When you compile your LabWindows/CVI application for NI-DNET,
it is automatically linked with
nidnet.lib
, the link library for
LabWindows/CVI. When NI-DNET is installed, the installation program
checks to see which compatible C compiler you are using with
LabWindows/CVI (Microsoft or Borland), and copies an appropriate
nidnet.lib
for that compiler.
Microsoft Visual Basic
To create an NI-DNET application in Visual Basic, add the
nidnet.bas
file to your project. This allows you to call any NI-DNET function file from
your code.
The
nidnet.bas
file is located in the
MS Visual Basic
folder of the
NI-DNET
folder. The typical path to this folder is
\Program Files\
National Instruments\NI-DNET\MS Visual Basic
.
The reference for each NI-DNET function is provided in the
NI-DNET
Programmer Reference Manual
, which you can open from
Start»All
Programs»National Instruments»NI-DNET
.
You can find examples for Visual Basic in the
examples
subfolder of the
MS Visual Basic
folder. Each example is in a separate folder. A
.vbp
file with the same name as the example opens the Visual Basic project. A
description of the example is located in a Help form within the project.