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Overview Remote Operation
This section assumes that you are familiar with the front panel operation
of the ODA. 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 ODA. These examples start from a blank project allowing you to see all
the steps required.
Agilent Technologies does not recommend controlling the ODA 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 ODA
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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