What's new in Measurement Studio—MCC edition
What's new in Measurement Studio 8.1.1 and 8.1.2—MCC edition
Windows Vista OS Support
Create .NET applications that take advantage of the latest development and deployment platform, Windows Vista.
Analysis Code Snippets
Reduce development time by copying example code snippets for more than 100 advanced analysis functions directly into your application.
Network Variable Performance Improvements
Achieve 2.5 times faster cross-platform communication with the new network variable LogosXT engine..
Legend Scrollbars
Conserve space on your user interface by scrolling through legend items at run time.
Enhanced Support for Engineering Formatting
Edit/parse engineering formatted values at run time as engineering formatted strings or as basic numeric formatted strings.
What's new in Measurement Studio 8.1—MCC edition
Network Variable Communication
Perform cross-platform communication among several Windows or real-time applications without low-level programming.TOP
Interactive Run-Time Control Configuration
Quickly analyze and inspect data by using the new instrument control strip to zoom, pan, edit properties, and add cursors and annotations to controls at run time.
High-Resolution Timing Support
Display precise oscilloscope measurements on waveform graphs with nanosecond resolution.
Remote System Configuration
Create and transfer configuration data stored in Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX), such as data acquisition tasks, to or from a system. Now you can easily duplicate systems or backup and restore configuration settings.
Enhancements to Existing Measurement Studio .NET Controls
Graph Error Bands
Calculate and display error bands around plot data on waveform and scatter graphs based on constant values, percent deviation, or custom data models.
Complex Graph Features
Clearly identify key points and regions with annotations along with configurable cursors that display real, imaginary, magnitude, and phase data coordinates. TOP
What's new in Measurement Studio 8.0.1—MCC edition
Visual Studio 2005 Support
Develop NI Measurement Studio applications in Visual Studio 2005 that fully support Version 2.0 of the .NET Framework and MFC 8.0. Take advantage of smart tags to quickly edit controls at design time.
ASP.NET Web Controls
Build remote monitoring and control applications with a complete suite of ASP.NET Web controls, including graphs, gauges, knobs, tanks, and thermometers, in addition to an auto-refresh control to automatically update the values of your Web controls.
DAQ Code Generation
Quickly create complete data acquisition (DAQ) applications or add advanced DAQ functionality to existing applications using the DAQ component and user interface designer wizard to generate DAQ source code, event handlers, and user interface controls specific to your data acquisition task.
Array User Interface Controls
Design Windows Forms that feature Measurement Studio user interface controls, including arrays of LEDs, switches, and numeric edit controls. You can programmatically pass an array of data to these controls to easily update all the individual control elements.
What's new in Measurement Studio 8.0—MCC edition
Visual Studio 2005 Support
Develop Measurement Studio applications in Visual Studio 2005 that fully support version 2.0 of the .NET Framework and MFC 8.0. Take advantage of smart tags to quickly edit controls at design time
Array User Interface Controls
Design Windows Forms that include three new Measurement Studio user interface controls, including arrays of LEDs, switches, and numeric edit controls. You can programmatically pass an array of data to these controls to easily update all the individual control elements.
New User Interface Controls
Digital Waveform Graph
With the digital waveform graph, you can plot digital waveform data. Using the digital waveform graph, you can configure plot labels on the y-axis and construct plot templates to customize plots. You can display the data in sample or time mode, and you can simultaneously display waveforms and signals or display signals only.
Complex Graph
With the complex graph, you can plot and chart complex double data consisting of both real and imaginary components. You can configure the graph to contain multiple plots to show separate but related data on the same graph, in addition to including multiple axes with independent ranges so that plot data fits the graph plot area.
Property Editor
With the property editor control, you create applications that enable your end users to configure properties for Windows Forms controls at run time. You can edit properties of any .NET type at run time, including collections, and you can edit expandable properties that represent nested properties of another object, such as major divisions of an axis. TOP
New Analysis Library and Improved Performance
More Than 80 New Analysis Methods for .NET
The Advanced Analysis Library now includes new curve fitting, windowing, linear algebra, signal processing, and special functions.
The new Measurement Studio analysis library provides enhanced performance, with up to 40 percent performance increases for fast Fourier transforms. Additional performance increases include:
Use of the Intel Math Kernel Library to provide high-performance implementation of linear algebra functionality
BLAS/LAPACK algorithms to decrease computation time for linear algebra functions and to provide more accurate results
For a complete list of analysis methods, see Measurement Studio Analysis.
Enhancements to Existing Measurement Studio .NET Controls
Interactive Axis Range Editing
For the graph and numeric pointer controls, you can interactively change the range of an axis and invert the axis at run time by clicking on the axis end labels.TOP
Custom Scale Range Fills
For the numeric pointer controls, you can fill the scale and configure the range, color, dimensions, and style of the fill.
More Than 100 Percent Improved Charting Performance
For the graph controls, you now have faster charting performance when you are charting data continuously.
Additional Measurement Studio Features
- Digital waveform data type
- Run-time interaction with the graphs without the modifier key
- Ability to configure graph origin lines
- Map device coordinates to data values on graph controls
Seven Managed .NET User Interface Controls
In addition to the Measurement Studio 7.0 graphs, LEDs, and switches, you now receive seven new extensible .NET controls with Measurement Studio 7.1, including sliders, knobs, gauges, thermometers, tanks, meters, and numeric edit controls. With these controls, you can easily create professional graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for your own virtual instruments that look and feel like real-world instrumentation. TOP
Enhanced Waveform and Scatter Graphs
The graphs in Measurement Studio 7.1 have added annotation capabilities, increased performance, and cursor and mouse labels. Graph enhancements include:
- Point and range annotations: Highlight points and ranges of interest on your graph
- Enhanced performance: Increase performance 16X with methods such as PlotYAppend( ) and PlotXYAppend( )
- Cursor and mouse labels: Enable labels to indicate the current X and Y plot location
- Anti-aliased plots: Smooth your plots by setting the anti-aliased plots property to TRUE
Design Time Collection Editors
Increase your productivity with new Measurement Studio collection editors like the XYAnnotation Editor to quickly create and interactively configure graph annotations for highlighting points or regions of interest on your graphs. You can continue to use collection editors for plots, axes, and cursors.TOP
Property Window Enhancements
Quickly configure user interface components at design time from the properties window of Visual Studio .NET. Graphically interact with Measurement Studio 7.1 user interface properties like the start and sweep angle of gauges and caption location. These property window enhancements extend to all Measurement Studio 7.1 controls providing graphical representations of scales, label location, control style, plots, and many more.
Auto Format Menu
At design time, you can quickly set the properties of user interface controls to many predefined configurations. The graph auto format menu offers common formats such as histogram, double y-axis, and strip chart. Auto format menus also exist for controls such as gauges and knobs.
Instrument Driver .NET Wizard
In seconds, the integrated Instrument Driver .NET Wizard converts existing IVI, VXIplug&play, and legacy instrument drivers into Visual Basic .NET or C# .NET source code. Incorporate your existing instrument drivers into your .NET application without rewriting all of your existing instrument drivers to work with .NET.TOP
