National Instruments 6711 User Manual

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1-8 | ni.comChapter 1 DAQ System OverviewProgramming Devices in SoftwareNational Instruments measurement devices are packaged with NI-DAQmx driver software, anextensive library of functions and VIs you can call from your application software, such asLabVIEW or LabWindows/CVI, to program all the features of your NI measurement devices.Driver software has an application programming interface (API), which is a library of VIs,functions, classes, attributes, and properties for creating applications for your device.NI-DAQmx includes a collection of programming examples to help you get started developingan application. You can modify example code and save it in an application. You can useexamples to develop a new application or add example code to an existing application.To locate LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI examples, open the National Instruments ExampleFinder:• In LabVIEW, select Help»Find Examples.• In LabWindows/CVI, select Help»NI Example Finder.Measurement Studio, Visual Basic, and ANSI C examples are in the following directories:• NI-DAQmx examples for Measurement Studio-supported languages are in the followingdirectories:– NI-DAQ\Examples\MStudioVCxxxx• Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) examples for Visual Basic are in the following twodirectories:– NI-DAQ\Examples\DotNETx.x• NI-DAQmx examples for ANSI C are in the NI-DAQ\Examples\DAQmx ANSI CdirectoryFor additional examples, refer to ni.com/examples.