Install The Remote Client - Agilent Technologies 86038B User Manual

Install the Remote Client

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Agilent 86038B Photonic Dispersion and Loss Analyzer, Second Edition
This installation is not for the PDLA itself. (Applications using
the remote programming commands can be run on the 86038B
itself without installing the remote client package.)
1 Install the .NET framework from Microsoft. Go to
www.microsoft.com and search for 'How to get the Microsoft
.NET framework'. Be sure to get the framework and all the
service packs. Make sure that you get the framework, not the
SDK (software development kit.)
2 The 86038B CD shipped with the PDLA contains the Remote
Client Installation to install the PDLA specific DLL's and the
programming examples. Insert the CD into the CD drive, use
Windows Explorer to find PDLA Remote Client Installer
Folder. If a more recent version of the 86038B User Interface
software is installed on the 86038B, then the corresponding
version of the Remote Client installation must also be used.
The most recent version is available from the Agilent web
site.
If you scan the GPIB, or change the hardware selection, you will need to
start a new measurement (including the setting of the measurement
parameters, and the making of a reference measurement) before you can
make further measurements.
3 Instantiate pdlaClient
Before you can interface with the PDLA, you have to declare the
client object. The client object is an object written by Agilent
and provided to you as part of the PDLA Remote Client install.
This object goes out over the LAN to interface with the PDLA,
and provides a defined interface for you to use.
To provide better compatibility, the PDLA actually has two
remote clients - an Active X component for use with Visual Basic
6.0 and applications such as Excel, Matlab and LabView, and a
.NET interface for use with languages such as VB.NET and C#.
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