measurement studio asp.net examples

[JumperBones]

Hello all, I work at an aerospace avionics company in southern New Hampshire.

I am a long-time CVI user who has a need to investigate Measurement Studio, specifically the ASP.NET part of it.

I have the latest Developer Suite, so I can use Measurement Studio if I want to, and I have Visual Studio 2005 Pro (all on XP SP2).

I just developed a CVI program that is about to generate lots of data, taken overnight during second and third shifts, which is written into CSV files, into various directories, on a file server, via network shares.

I would like to give access to any employee here (production managers, typically) the ability to do their own periodic data gathering and viewing from their own desks via the company LAN.  I was thinking of using DIAdem, which is still an option, because I bought that with the developer suite as well.  But then I'd have to buy many licenses, and train them how to use that tool.  And these people may not be up to that task level, they are non-technical.  So non-technical, that I think I would even have trouble getting them to learn how to import CSV files into Excel and generate plots from the data.

So instead, I want to build a web-based data-viewing web page for them.  It would gather the data that was taken the any previous night's test-run, build the plots according a limited set of user-selectable criteria, and render them into a set of traces on a 2D plot.

So I was also thinking of doing it in ASP.NET under IIS on Windows Server 2003, since I have several systems I can employ for this.

I already have a static HTML web site built for this project, using IIS on Windows Server 2003 9for project documentation purposes).  i would love to add the "data-viewing" interactivity to this web site.

So the question is, are there any resources that are available via this vast NI Developer Zone site that would show me how to do something like this?

I found some ASP.NET examples at http://netdemo.ni.com/webforms/, but there is no source code to download (which would be great to have a link to, by the way. - hint, hint!).

But are there any other resources out there?

Am I even approaching this the proper way?

Thanks for reading this,

JB

[Song_D]

Jumper,

What you are trying to do is a very good idea. The source code of the webpage you linked is actually shipped with Measurement Studio. It's located in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\National Instruments\MStudioVS2005\DotNET\Examples\UI\WebForms.

There are also a couple of detailed walkthroughs on web-based applications in the Measurement Studio Help. Once you install Measurement Studio, you can find the top under NI Measurement Studio Help»Getting Started with Measurement Studio Class Libraries»Measurement Studio Walkthroughs.

[JumperBones]

Thank you, Song.  I did not know that the source code to your "Measurement Studio ASP.NET Demonstration Gallery" was shipped with the product.  This might be something that is worth mentioning at the top of that web page.  I recall talking on the phone to a different NI app-engineer in Austin months ago, while discussing another issue, about this pages source code availability, and they did not know how to get to it.

I'll be looking at this in detail now, thanks again.

JB