Visa Com Example In Visual Basic .Net - Agilent Technologies Infiniium 90000 Series Programmer's Manual

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VISA COM Example in Visual Basic .NET

To compile and run this example in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008:
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For more information, see the VISA COM Help that comes with Agilent IO
Libraries Suite 15.
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' Agilent VISA COM Example in Visual Basic .NET
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' This program illustrates a few commonly used programming
' features of your Agilent Infiniium Series oscilloscope.
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Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports Ivi.Visa.Interop
Agilent Infiniium 90000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Reference
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(m_IoObject);
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try
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Marshal.ReleaseComObject(m_ResourceManager);
}
catch { }
}
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Open Visual Studio.
Create a new Visual Basic, Windows, Console Application project.
Cut- and- paste the code that follows into the C# source file.
Edit the program to use the VISA address of your oscilloscope.
Add a reference to the VISA COM 3.0 Type Library:
a Right- click the project you wish to modify (not the solution) in the
Solution Explorer window of the Microsoft Visual Studio
environment.
Choose Add Reference....
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In the Add Reference dialog, select the COM tab.
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Select VISA COM 3.0 Type Library; then click OK.
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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 "Infiniium.VisaComInstrumentApp"
as the Startup object.
Build and run the program.
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