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798 Agilent InfiniiVision 5000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Guide
12 Programming Examples
VISA COM Example in Visual Basic .NET
To compile and run this example in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005:
1 Open Visual Studio.
2 Create a new Visual Basic, Windows, Console Application project.
3 Cut- and- paste the code that follows into the C# source file.
4 Edit the program to use the VISA address of your oscilloscope.
5 Add a reference to the VISA COM 3.0 Type Library:
a Right- click the project you wish to modify (not the solution) in the
Solution Explorer window of the Microsoft Visual Studio
environment.
b Choose Add Reference....
c In the Add Reference dialog, select the COM tab.
d Select VISA COM 3.0 Type Library; then click OK.
e Right- click the project you wish to modify (not the solution) in the
Solution Explorer window of the Microsoft Visual Studio environment
and choose Properties; then, select
"InfiniiVision.VisaComInstrumentApp" as the Startup object.
6 Build and run the program.
For more information, see the VISA COM Help that comes with Agilent IO
Libraries Suite 15.
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' Agilent VISA COM Example in Visual Basic .NET
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' This program illustrates most of the commonly used programming
' features of your Agilent oscilloscopes.
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Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Imports Ivi.Visa.Interop
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Namespace InfiniiVision
Class VisaComInstrumentApp
Private Shared myScope As VisaComInstrument
Public Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())
Try
myScope = New _
VisaComInstrument("USB0::2391::5957::MY47250010::0::INSTR")
Initialize()
' The extras function contains miscellaneous commands that