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News Release from: National Instruments | Subject: Measurement Studio 8 data management
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 May 2006
Data software makes up readily viewable
Web pages
Software has a comprehensive suite of class libraries and controls for acquiring, analysing and presenting data in applications built using Microsoft Visual Studio.
National Instruments has announced the release of Measurement Studio 8, a comprehensive suite of class libraries and controls for acquiring, analysing and presenting data in applications built using Microsoft Visual Studio Now with scientific Web controls for ASP.NET, the upgrade gives engineers the power to create Web pages that can be viewed with any browser or operating system for remote monitoring and control of their test and measurement applications
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 8 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Measurement Studio 8 also offers complete integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, as well as new user interface controls, more than 80 new analysis methods and additional data acquisition code generation.
"Using Measurement Studio 8, we quickly developed a complete remote monitoring system that published test data to Web browsers throughout the manufacturing plant," said Robert Cornwell, senior program manager at G Systems.
"We chose Measurement Studio because it provides powerful and highly configurable ASP.NET user interface controls, which are ideal for displaying manufacturing data." Measurement Studio 8 features ASP.NET Web controls, giving engineers the power to use the complete Microsoft ASP.NET Web infrastructure and their knowledge of C# or Visual Basic .NET to create test- and control-specific Web pages that include graphs, tanks, switches and meters.
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With these new controls, engineers can easily display data from dynamic sources, such as that from data acquisition devices, benchtop instruments, distributed I/O systems or databases, on a Web page that can be viewed with any browser.
In addition, Web clients can interact in real time with Measurement Studio applications to control distributed applications such as those at remote test sites or manufacturing plants.
Measurement Studio continues to add test and measurement functionality to the latest development environment from Microsoft.
With integration into Visual Studio 2005, engineers can select Measurement Studio Web and Windows Forms controls from the Visual Studio Toolbox, edit controls at design time with Visual Studio 2005 smart tags, access Measurement Studio help, quickly add data acquisition and instrument control functionality and automatically create Measurement Studio Web and Windows projects.
Engineers can also save time by using the Measurement Studio 8 .NET user interface controls, instead of developing and maintaining their own custom controls.
The digital waveform graph plots digital lines and buses, and works with plot templates for easy graph customisation.
The complex graph plots and charts double data consisting of both real and imaginary components.
With the property editor control, engineers can create applications that help users configure properties for Windows Forms controls at run time.
Other features of Measurement Studio 8 include more than 80 new analysis methods for .NET and C++, as well as dynamic data acquisition components, which engineers can use to automatically add user interface controls, data acquisition code and event handlers to their applications.
* About National Instruments - for 30 years, National Instruments has been a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation - a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation.
Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, PCI Express, USB and Ethernet.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,800 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries.
For the past seven years, 'Fortune' magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Request a free brochure from National Instruments ...
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