Is it possible to reserve an Ethernet cDAQ device in the software?

[DieselPower]

I am using an Ethernet device, but there will only be one PC connecting to it.  It is possible to reserve this device in software so I can eliminate that step for my clients.

Thanks.

[Beutlich]

Have you checked out the DAQmx Reserve Network Device.vi, under Measurement I/O -> DAQmx - Data Acquisition -> DAQmx Advanced -> System Setup? The detailed help on this VI says 'Adds a Network cDAQ device to the system and, if specified, attempts to reserve it.'

[DieselPower]

I'm using VB.NET.  I'm assuming a function exists, however, since LabVIEW has something.

[James_D]

Greetings,

what language are you programming in? Visual Basic, C#, etc?

[DieselPower]

VB.NET

[James_D]

Oh, whoops, sorry about that. I misread what you'd originally said. I looked around in the object browser in Visual Studio 2010 and found a few methods that look like they're exactly what you're looking for.

NationalInstruments.DAQmx.DaqSystem.AddNetworkDevice()

Adds a Network cDAQ device to the system. This method does not attempt to reserve the device after the device is successfully added.

This can be followed up with

NationalInstruments.DAQmx.Device.ReserveNetworkDevice()

Reserves the Network DAQ device for the current host. Reservation is required to run NI-DAQmx tasks, and the device must be added in MAX before it can be reserved. This method does not override any existing reservations on the device.

Please take a look at these and let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks,

James Duvall

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

[thibs]

Hey! I`m creating a c++ application and I have a simillar problem. I already included the NIDAQmx.h in the application, but after compile it says "DAQmxReserveNetworkDevice" was not declared in this scope. Do you guys know how to implement this function in a c

++ application?

*Others functions, such as createTask,createDIchannel are working perfectly

[thibs]

I got it. I just added the function in the header and now the function is available. I`m sending the header in attatchement.