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Sample Programs 35
Agilent Infiniium 90000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Reference 1011
'
' Agilent VISA Example in Visual Basic .NET
' -------------------------------------------------------------------
' This program illustrates a few commonly-used programming
' features of your Agilent Infiniium Series oscilloscope.
' -------------------------------------------------------------------
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text
Namespace Infiniium
Class VisaInstrumentApp
Private Shared myScope As VisaInstrument
Public Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())
Try
myScope = _
New VisaInstrument("TCPIP0::130.29.71.191::inst0::INSTR")
myScope.SetTimeoutSeconds(10)
' Initialize - start from a known state.
Initialize()
' Capture data.
Capture()
' Analyze the captured waveform.
Analyze()
Catch err As System.ApplicationException
Console.WriteLine("*** VISA Error Message : " + err.Message)
Catch err As System.SystemException
Console.WriteLine("*** System Error Message : " + err.Message)
Catch err As System.Exception
Debug.Fail("Unexpected Error")
Console.WriteLine("*** Unexpected Error:"+err.Message)
Finally
myScope.Close()
End Try
End Sub
'
' Initialize the oscilloscope to a known state.
' --------------------------------------------------------------
Private Shared Sub Initialize()
Dim strResults As StringBuilder
' Clear status.
myScope.DoCommand("*CLS")
' Get and display the device's *IDN? string.
strResults = myScope.DoQueryString("*IDN?")
Console.WriteLine("*IDN? result is: {0}", strResults)
' Load the default setup.