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[Dennis_Knutson]

Your caps lock key seems to be stuck on.

There are numerous examples at http://www.ni.com/devzone/idnet/ for DMMs. There is even a shipping example for the Agilent 34401 and this is on the Instrument I/O>Instrument Drivers palette. It is a GPIB or RS-232 instrument so you can look at how the serial is configured. There is also a lot of other resources at the above link. How and what a driver is, how to write one, etc. With LabVIEW 8.x, you also have a wizard for creating a driver at Tools>Instrumentation>Create Instrument Driver Project. You also have the Instrument I/O Assistant on the Instrument I/O palette. This is helpful if you don't want a full driver. In any case, I would recomend you get familiar with the remote control functions in a program such as hyperterminal before you start writing any code. When you've done that, you can test some of the functions with the shipping examples for serial communication.

[JUMPINGRICK]

Hi sir..why i am not being able to communicate with my device?while opening "visa test panel",it is unable to open it..the source is valid,but it cannot open visa..

[Dennis_Knutson]

Make sure you don't have any other communications programs running at the same time. Windows will not permit, for example, Hyperterminal and VISA simultaneous access to a com port.

[JUMPINGRICK]

Hi sir..can you tell me plz if i can find the Intrument I/O Assistant in LABVIEW 6?

[JUMPINGRICK]

If not,then,is there any alternative?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Sorry, the Instrument I/O Assistant was not introduced until LabVIEW 7.0. Short of upgrading, about your only alternative is to look at the shipping examples I mentioned and try to write your own driver.