National Instruments DAQ X Series User Manual page 20

About This Manual
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To create an application in Visual Basic .NET, Visual C#, or Visual C++,
follow these general steps:
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ANSI C without NI Application Software
The NI-DAQmx Help contains API overviews and general information
about measurement concepts. Select Start»All Programs»National
Instruments»NI-DAQ»NI-DAQmx Help.
The NI-DAQmx C Reference Help describes the NI-DAQmx Library
functions, which you can use with National Instruments data acquisition
devices to develop instrumentation, acquisition, and control applications.
Select Start»All Programs»National Instruments»NI-DAQ»
Text-Based Code Support»NI-DAQmx C Reference Help.
.NET Languages without NI Application Software
With the Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 or later, you can use
NI-DAQmx to create applications using Visual C# and Visual Basic
.NET without Measurement Studio. You need Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET 2003 or later for the API documentation to be installed.
The installed documentation contains the NI-DAQmx API overview,
measurement tasks and concepts, and function reference. This help is fully
integrated into the Visual Studio documentation. To view the NI-DAQmx
.NET documentation, go to Start»All Programs»National Instruments»
NI-DAQ»Text-Based Code Support»NI-DAQmx .NET Help. For
function reference, refer to the NationalInstruments.DAQmx Namespace
and NationalInstruments.DAQmx.ComponentModel Namespace topics.
For conceptual help, refer to the Using the Measurement Studio NI-DAQmx
X Series User Manual
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For conceptual help with NI-DAQmx, refer to Using the Measurement
Studio NI-DAQmx .NET Library, Using the Measurement Studio
NI-DAQmx Visual C++ Library, or Developing with Measurement
Studio NI-DAQmx.
For general help with programming in Measurement Studio, refer to
Getting Started with the Measurement Studio Class Libraries.
In Visual Studio, select File»New»Project to launch the New Project
dialog box.
In the Project types pane, expand the Visual Basic, Visual C#, or
Visual C++ node, depending on which language you want to create the
project in, and select Measurement Studio.
Choose a project type. You add DAQ tasks as a part of this step.
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