Looking to develop in VB.NET without Measurement Studio

[timothyjb]

Bilal,

I got busy on another project and didn't get around to responding till now. But now that I've received a 6225 board I'm ready to start moving quickly. But I can't see the .NET reference help in the National Instruments program group. I did select the .NET Framework language stuff when I installed NI-DAQmx. And if I try to re-install, it says that the .NET Framework language stuff is already there. I've attached a screen shot of the NI program group on my computer.

Thanks,

Tim

[McKala[DE]]

Hi Tim,

The documentation was not installed, did you install DAQmx after installing the .NET framework?  Also, what version of NI-DAQmx did you install?  The current version can be installed from the Drivers and Update Page.  You may want to just try to modify your NI-DAQmx installation through the Control Panel or if that does not work, you might consider reinstalling the entire thing with the most recent DAQmx version.

[timothyjb]

Micaela,

I did install DAQmx after installing the .NET framework. I installed the latest version - yesterday I downloaded it from the NI website and installed it. If, by modifying it through control panel, you mean add/remove programs - I wasn't able to change it that way. And, like I said, I just re-installed the latest version, so I don't know what to do now. I've been having trouble registering my Visual Studio .NET 2005 express edition, but I'll be getting the standard edition soon and maybe I'll just wait until then to see if I can view the documention through the Visual Studio environment.

Tim

[McKala[DE]]

Tim,

It may be that the support is already installed but the documentation is not installed.  I would recommend installing the documentation directly, it's located on the installation CD or in the NI-DAQmx download in the \Products\NI-DAQmx\Csupport\caiInstaller.msi file.  This will install the NI-DAQmx C Reference and the NI-DAQmx C API Visual Basics 6 Help Files.  After that, try the shipping examples in the C:\Program Files\National Instruments\NI-DAQ\Examples\DAQmx ANSI C file. 

If you have trouble installing the help files or using one of the shipping examples we can try just reinstalling the .NET Framework support.  I would recommend copying the NI-DAQmx installation CD to your hard driver as sometimes computers have weird problems with installing from a CD.  Then modify your NI-DAQmx installating in Control Panel by installing the .NET Framework Support.  Try reinstalling it from the hard drive and see if that makes any difference. 

Let me know if you are still having trouble.

Micaela

[bilalD]

Greetings Tim

Make sure that the DAQms .NET libraries were installed on your system. By default ,the help files for the DAQmx .NET libraries will be under C:\Program Files\National Instruments\MeasurementStudioVS2003\Help and the .NET libraries for DAQmx under C:\Program Files\National Instruments\MeasurementStudioVS2003\DotNET\Assemblies\Current.

You wont be able to view the help files with the VS 2005 Help viewer anyway since they changed the help system. These help files were designed for VS 2003. To view the help files , you can use the utility mentioned at the bottom of this KB.

These libraries were meant to integrate with VS 2003, which is why you have to jump through all these hoops for now. We are working on releasing DAQmx .NET libraries that fully integrate with VS 2005.

Hope this helps.

[timothyjb]

Bilal,

I was able to successfully install that H2 viewer and view all the .NET help files in the locations you specified. I look forward to the DAQmx upgrade that integrates the help with VS 2005.

Thanks,

Tim