I'm running into problems setting up what I would think should be a pretty straightforward configuration: running in Windows session 0 and automatically getting data at a specified interval from three channels on our Fluke 2625A. (Everything's easy when you know how.)
How far have I gotten? I'm barely out of the gate yet, if even that.
I've installed VS2013 into a VM so I can get all of what the MS2015 package has to offer. (I know we're supposed to be able to run different versions side-by-side, but I just don't trust it—especially not with a five-year-old IDE.) Once I get the driver wrapper code generated I'll copy that to my 2017 instance on my workstation and build out my Windows service from there. This is my current plan, anyway—I'm open to suggestions for improvement on this.
So I installed MS and NI-VISA, in that order, but I'm not sure what to do next. I'm not finding any code samples specific to my scenario. It seems I can do everything but what I want to do.
The driver for our device is here:
http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.download_page?p_id_guid=E2E2A3038D074997E04400144FB7D2...
...but it's in source code form only. I'm highly proficient in VB.NET, but I'm absolutely lost when it comes to C/C++. Do I have to build this thing from source? I sure hope not. I wouldn't trust myself for a thousand dollars on that one.
How do all these pieces fit together? What advice would someone have for a stone-cold beginner?
Thanks,
Jeff Bowman
Fairbanks, Alaska
