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1. Hierarchy Chart and Measurement Studio Visual C Class Hierarchy Chart Provide overviews of class relationships within class libraries Charts are included with all Measurement Studio packages and are posted online at ni com manuals e Review the information from the Microsoft Web site on using Visual Studio National Instruments NI ni com and LabVIEW are trademarks of National Instruments Corporation Refer to the Terms of Use section on ni com 1legal for more information about National Instruments trademarks Other product and company names mentioned herein are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies For patents covering National Instruments products refer to the appropriate location Help Patents in your software the patents txt file on your CD or ni com patents 2006 2008 National Instruments Corporation All rights reserved 373085D 01 Apr082. aaa RELEASE NOTES Measurement Studio These release notes supplement the Measurement Studio User Manual Refer to this document for information about new features and functionality specific updates to the documentation and resources in Measurement Studio These release notes include information about Measurement Studio support for Visual Studio 2008 Visual Studio 2005 Visual Studio NET 2003 and Visual Studio 6 0 For installation instructions installation requirements deployment information a list of fixed bugs and known issues refer to the Measurement Studio Readme There is a different Measurement Studio Readme for each supported version of Visual Studio The Measurement Studio Readme files are available in the root folder of the installation CD and are linked from the Autorun menu After installing Measurement Studio 8 5 select Start All Programs National Instruments lt Measurement Studio gt Readme to access the Measurement Studio 8 5 Readme For a complete introduction to Measurement Studio and to learn about Measurement Studio concepts controls and features refer to the Measurement Studio User Manual Select Start All Programs National Instruments lt Measurement Studio gt Measurement Studio User Manual to access the Measurement Studio User Manual 1 There are separate Start menu items for each version of Visual Studio support 7 NATIONAL p INSTRUMENTS Contents What s New in Measurement St
3. al C class libraries For more information refer to Using Measurement Studio Assemblies for Visual Studio 2005 in Visual Studio 2008 in the NI Measurement Studio Help National Instruments Corporation 3 Measurement Studio Release Notes ASP NET AJAX Compatibility Measurement Studio Visual Studio 2008 Web Forms controls have been updated to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft ASP NET AJAX controls With this update you can quickly create Web pages that include a rich user experience with responsive and familiar user interface elements ASP NET AJAX provides client script libraries that incorporate cross browser JavaScript and dynamic HTML DHTML technologies and integrates them with the ASP NET server based development platform You can use ASP NET AJAX server controls with Measurement Studio Web Forms controls to improve the user experience and the efficiency of your Web applications For more information refer to Measurement Studio AutoRefresh vs ASP NET AJAX UpdatePanel and Timer in the NI Measurement Studio Help AutoRefresh Callback Improvements This new feature provides a mechanism for updating the Enabled and Interval properties for AutoRefresh from within the Refresh callback allowing you to turn off AutoRefresh or change the Interval during an asynchronous HTTP request without causing a postback Previously the JavaScript timer on the client did not get updated during an asynchronous HTTP request and only the control
4. e copied and pasted into an application and used without modification The following classes include new example code snippets AnovalWay BesselLowpassFilter ExponentialFit For more information refer to Using the Measurement Studio Analysis NET Library in the NI Measurement Studio Help Additional New Features The following new features were also introduced in Measurement Studio 8 5 e AutoScaleVisibleExact and AutoScaleVisibleLoose Axis Modes The AxisMode enumeration now includes AutoScaleVisibleExact and AutoScaleVisibleLoose values You use these values to configure an axis to autoscale according to the range of data currently being displayed on the graph instead of according to the range of all data in the graph These modes are available on the scatter waveform and complex graphs Also the autoscale is retained during zoom and pan operations e Mutually Exclusive Functionality for Switch and LED Arrays With this update you can now configure an array of Boolean controls such as a Switch array or an Led array so that only one element in the array can be true at a time This feature allows you to Measurement Studio Release Notes 6 ni com control or display the status of instruments that require only a single Boolean value to be true at any given time e Enhanced Tick and Label Visibility Customizations in NET Graph Controls With this update you can hide the minimum and maximum ticks and labels f
5. ent Studio User Manual content For Measurement Studio 8 5 the Measurement Studio User Manual contains the most recent documentation available Learning Measurement Studio As you work with Measurement Studio you might need to consult additional resources For detailed Measurement Studio help including function reference and in depth documentation on developing with Measurement Studio refer to the NJ Measurement Studio Help within the Visual Studio environment The NI Measurement Studio Help is fully integrated with the Visual Studio help You must have Visual Studio installed to view the online help and you must have the Microsoft NET Framework SDK 1 1 for Visual Studio NET 2003 the Microsoft NET Framework SDK 2 0 for Visual Studio 2005 or the Microsoft NET Framework SDK 3 5 for Visual Studio 2008 installed in order for links from Measurement Studio help topics to NET Framework help topics to work You can launch the NI Measurement Studio Help in the following ways e From the Windows Start menu select Start All Programs National Instruments lt Measurement Studio gt Measurement Studio Documentation The help launches in a stand alone help viewer Measurement Studio Release Notes 8 ni com e From Visual Studio select Help Contents to view the Visual Studio table of contents The NJ Measurement Studio Help is listed in the table of contents e From Visual Studio select Measurement Studio NI Measurement Studio Help T
6. he help launches within the application The following resources also are available to provide you with information about Measurement Studio e Getting Started information Refer to the Measurement Studio Core Overview topic and the Getting Started with the Measurement Studio Class Libraries section in the NI Measurement Studio Help for an introduction to Measurement Studio and for walkthroughs that guide you step by step in learning how to develop Measurement Studio applications For an introduction to Measurement Studio resources refer to the Using the Measurement Studio Help topic in the NI Measurement Studio Help e Examples Measurement Studio installs examples organized by class library depending on the component the version of Visual Studio or the NET Framework that the example supports the version of Measurement Studio installed on the system and the operating system For more information on example locations refer to the Where To Find Examples topic in the NI Measurement Studio Help e Measurement Studio Web site ni com mstudio Contains Measurement Studio news support downloads white papers product tutorials and purchasing information e NI Developer Zone zone ni com Provides access to online example programs tutorials technical news and a Measurement Studio Discussion Forum where you can participate in discussion forums for Visual Basic 6 0 Visual C and NET Languages e Measurement Studio NET Class
7. ing browse tasks e Accessing stopped processes e Accessing and modifying variable configurations For more information on browsing network variables refer to Comparing the Network Variable Browser Class and the Configuration Classes in the NI Measurement Studio Help Network Variable Buffer Flushing Measurement Studio 8 5 gives you advanced control over when the buffer of the network variable API is flushed allowing you to optimize the performance of the APIs for your particular application All network variable readers and writers maintain an internal buffer for each connection All writer classes maintain an internal buffer to protect against data loss The buffer automatically flushes every 10 milliseconds or when the buffer becomes full and you can use the FlushAl1Connections method to manually flush the buffer All network variable reader classes Buf feredSubscriber lt TValue gt NetworkVariableReader lt TValue gt and NetworkVariableSubscriber lt TValue gt must flush the buffer in order to perform a read since the readers must send a request to receive the value to the network variable engine For more information on buffer flushing behavior and how to maximize performance in context of the buffer refer to Buffer Flushing Behavior of the Network Variable Class Libraries in the NI Measurement Studio Help Memory Optimized Analog Waveform Read Methods Memory optimized analog waveform reads are a special case of analog
8. many fixes for previously reported bugs Refer to the fixed bug chart in the Measurement Studio 8 5 Readme for more information Select Start All Programs National Instruments lt Measurement Studio gt Readme to access the Measurement Studio 8 5 Readme National Instruments Corporation 7 Measurement Studio Release Notes Limited Update to Visual Studio NET 2003 Support Measurement Studio 8 5 support for Visual Studio NET 2003 includes no new features The only revisions to Visual Studio NET 2003 support are bug fixes in the ActiveX controls in the cwui ocx and cw3dgrph ocx libraries The bug fixes in these controls are documented in the Visual Studio 2005 support Readme The Measurement Studio Readme for Visual Studio NET 2003 support has not been updated to document these bug fixes Visual Studio 6 0 Support The Measurement Studio 8 5 installation CDs include Visual Studio 6 0 support however this support is considered legacy and no revisions were made for Visual Studio 6 0 in Measurement Studio 8 5 Updates to the Measurement Studio Support for Visual Studio 6 0 software are available on ni com by selecting Support Drivers and Updates Software Measurement Studio Documentation Updates As Measurement Studio features and functionality expand with each release the information in the Measurement Studio User Manual can become outdated We have added this section to provide a list of changes or additions to the Measurem
9. or any axis on any NET graph Previously the minimum and maximum values of an axis on the graph were always displayed with a tick and label even when they did not fall on a major division interval e InteractionHistoryCount Property The new read only InteractionHistoryCount property returns the number of items currently in the undo stack in the graph With this new property you can monitor the number of items remaining in the stack that holds interactive operations and add event handlers to use this information in your application e Network Variable ConnectionFailed Event If a NetworkVariableDataSource attempts to connect to a network variable and fails the Connect ionFailed event is raised Handle this event to determine why connections are failing use the ReadFailed or WriteFailed events to determine when reads or writes fail e Additional Analysis NET Class Library Methods The following method overloads have been added e Measurements HarmonicAnalyzer Double Int32 Double Double Double Double Double e SignalProcessing Differentiate Double Double Double Double DifferentiationMethod e SignalProcessing UnwrapPhase Double PhaseUnit e Statistics RootMeanSquared ComplexDouble The following methods have been added Measurements CycleRmsAverage e Measurements PulseMeasurements e Measurements StateLevels e Measurements TransitionMeasurements e Bug Fixes Measurement Studio 8 5 includes
10. rovements e Explicitly creating network variables e Browsing network variables e Network variable buffer flushing e Memory optimized analog waveform read methods e Visualization support for Complex Waveform in the WaveformGraph e NET Analysis library code snippets e Additional new features e Limited update to Visual Studio NET 2003 support e Visual Studio 6 0 support Measurement Studio NET Support for Visual Studio 2008 Measurement Studio 8 5 includes NET support for Visual Studio 2008 including a complete set of NET class libraries and tools that integrate into Visual Studio 2008 To use these new libraries either create new projects in Visual Studio 2008 or use Visual Studio 2008 to upgrade your existing Visual Studio 2005 projects that use Measurement Studio support for Visual Studio 2005 libraries The Measurement Studio Visual Studio 2008 class libraries have different versions and different public key tokens than the corresponding Measurement Studio Visual Studio 2005 class libraries The version numbers of Visual Studio 2008 support assemblies begin with 8 5 35 the version numbers of Visual Studio 2005 support assemblies begin with 8 5 20 If you use the public key token to verify the identity of Measurement Studio class libraries you will need to modify your code or system configuration to accommodate the new public key token 3 Note Measurement Studio 8 5 support for Visual Studio 2008 does not include support for Visu
11. s in the AutoRefresh collection were updated Explicitly Creating Network Variables In addition to explicitly creating network variables with the Variable Manager now you also can explicitly create network variables with the following classes ServerProcess ServerProcessInfo ServerVariable and ServerVariableInfo You can use ServerProcess to perform a process related operation ServerProcessInfo and ServerVariableInfo to periodically monitor a network variable process or variable respectively and ServerVariable to perform a single variable related operation For more information on using these classes to explicitly create and configure network variables refer to Explicitly Creating Network Variables in the NI Measurement Studio Help Browsing Network Variables The network variable API includes the Browser class and the network variable configuration classes ServerProcess ServerProcessInfo ServerVariable and ServerVariableInfo You can use these classes to discover network variables and processes Measurement Studio Release Notes 4 ni com You can use the Browser class for the following tasks e Discovering processes and variables on local and remote machines e Finding any item that exists in the network variable engine e Accessing implicitly created network variables e Determining the network variable type You can use the ServerProcess ServerProcessInfo ServerVariable and ServerVariableiInfo classes for the follow
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13. waveform reads in the NI DAQmx and NI SCOPE NET class libraries where the NationalInstruments AnalogWaveform lt TData gt class re uses the memory utilized by an existing AnalogWaveform lt TData gt instead of allocating memory for a new data array on every invocation Memory is reallocated if the number of samples requested is greater than National Instruments Corporation 5 Measurement Studio Release Notes the current size of the AnalogWaveform lt TData gt This allows for much more efficient memory usage when performing multiple analog waveform reads Memory optimized analog waveform read methods were introduced in NI DAQ 8 7 and NI SCOPE NET class libraries 1 1 Visualization Support for ComplexWaveform in the WaveformGraph You can use PlotComplexWaveform lt TData gt to plot complex waveforms on the Windows Forms and Web Forms waveform graphs You can use the ComplexWaveformPlotOptions DisplayMode property to specify whether the complex waveform displays samples or increments of time and you can use the ComplexwWaveformPlotOptions ScaleMode property to configure whether the data as displayed in raw form or scaled You can also customize the scaling behavior by deriving from ScaleMode You can also use the DataToPlot property to configure the waveform graph to plot the real imaginary magnitude or phase data NET Analysis Library Code Snippets Measurement Studio 8 5 includes analysis code snippets in the documentation that can b
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