Thanks but that article seems to focus on the transitioning of a Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET. I was looking at the Traditional NI DAQ non-graphical ANSI C code library functions to the NI-DAQm supported C# .NET methods. For example, in the old C legacy code the following functions are performed:
//The PCI-DIO-32HS is initialized, device number code returned is 211 for that hardware. It is the only device so the device number is 1
iStatus = Init_DA_Brds(deviceNumber, &deviceNumberCode);
//Clear Group 1 ports and set there direction to input
iStatus = DIG_Grp_Config(deviceNumber, // Device Number : 1, the PCI-DIO-32HS
1, // Goup : Configure group 1
0, // Group Size : Unassign all ports on group 1
0, // Port : Set to 0 since ports are being unassigned
0); // Port Direction : Set to port direction to input
//Clear Group 2 ports and set there direction to output
iStatus = DIG_Grp_Config(deviceNumber, // Device Number : 211 = PCI-DIO-32HS
2, // Goup : Configure group 2
0, // Group Size : Unassign all ports previously assigned to a group 2
0, // Port : Set to 0 since ports are being unassigned
1); // Port Direction : Set to port direction to output
//Configure port 1 to input with no hand shaking
iStatus = DIG_Prt_Config(deviceNumber, // Device Number : 211 = PCI-DIO-32HS
1, // Port : Configure port 1 (this card goes from 0 to 3)
0, // Mode : Configure port for no handshaking
0); // Port Direction : Set to port direction to input
//Configure port 3 to output with no hand shaking
iStatus = DIG_Prt_Config(deviceNumber, // Device Number : 211 = PCI-DIO-32HS
3, // Port : Configure port 3 (this card goes from 0 to 3)
0, // Mode : Configure port for no handshaking
1); // Port Direction : Set to port direction to output
So, I want to replicate those functions calls with the .NET equivalents. Now for the initialization of the card I assume creating a task and channel as outlined in the Measurement Studio sample code is like so:
//Create a task such that it will be disposed after we are done using it.
myTask = new Task();
//Create channel
myTask.DIChannels.CreateChannel( "Dev1/port0/line0:7", //Device 1, Port 1, lines 0-7
"myChannel", //Channel Name
ChannelLineGrouping.OneChannelForAllLines); //ChannelLineGrouping option (one or all)
But afterwords I'm not sure how to configure the port directions and perform block reads via the buffer data like the 'DIG_Block_In' call does?
FYI,
Ron
