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Glossary
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ActiveX
ActiveX control
ActiveX control
container
analog I/O
annotate
ANSI C
API
array control
assembly
asynchronous
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Set of Microsoft technologies for reusable software components. Formerly
called OLE.
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.
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.
Reading or writing data in continuously variable physical quantities, such
as voltage or current.
Adding text, arrows, or shapes to describe or highlight a point or region on
a graph.
C programming language defined by the American National Standards
Institute.
Application Programming Interface. A specification of software functions
and their input and return parameters.
An array of Measurement Studio user interface controls that behave as a
single unit.
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.
Function that begins an operation and returns control to the program prior
to the completion or termination of the operation.
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