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This section assumes that you are familiar with the front panel
operation of the PDLA. If you are unfamiliar with the
instrument, refer to Chapter 1, "Getting Started" for an
introduction to the front panel, and Chapter 3, "Making
Measurements" for good measurement techniques.
While this chapter assumes you are familiar with your
programming environment, it does not assume familiarity with
controlling remote objects from within that environment.
Detailed examples are provided for VB 6.0, VB.NET and C#, the
most common environments for controlling the PDLA. These
examples start from a blank project allowing you to see all the
steps required.
Agilent Technologies does not recommend controlling the PDLA
from C or C++ because of the difficulty of interfacing with COM
objects that return safe arrays.
This chapter also includes examples that pull data directly from
the PDLA into both Excel and LabView. These are very useful if
you are setting up measurements manually, but want to analyze
the results on your own computer.
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