Brittany Finnegan 
CHALLENGE A worldwide harvesting equipment manufacturer approached DISTek with the desire to convert their existing and future combine equipment from using proprietary displays to utilizing ISOBUS. The client wanted to …
I’ve been involved in the world of ISOBUS for several years now, but finally had the chance in February to attend my first PlugFest conference in Houston, Texas. This unique …
If you followed my previous blog post you will know that merging ISO Designer project files is something desirable when multiple developers are working on an ISOBUS project, but is …
DISTek Integration has been heavily involved in ISOBUS development for a long time now. We have helped many clients develop and integrate custom VT solutions for their vehicles and implements …
In June of this year I had the opportunity to attend our DISTek-led Modeling and Simulation training course. Currently, I am the lead of the Automation and Test group here at DISTek, but in my previous roles I have been heavily involved in desktop application development, as well as test system development primarily using LabVIEW. My exposure to modeling and embedded has been somewhat limited thus far, so I thought it would be a good experience to learn some of the basics.
The last two months we have covered how to do data acquisition in .NET. This month we will go over how to integrate LabVIEW and .NET together in a hybrid application. I am going to demonstrate how to use a LabVIEW server application to acquire data using DAQmx and send it to a .NET client application. The client can then display the data using more visually appealing Microsoft controls and then sends the data back to the server to demonstrate two-way TCP communication.
Last month we discussed a little bit about what National Instruments DAQmx and Measurement Studio are and how they can be used to create .NET applications which leverage National Instruments data acquisition hardware. This month we are going to jump in to a high-level practical explanation on how to get started doing data acquisition in .NET.
National Instruments provides a wide array of data acquisition hardware for use in many platforms, operating systems, and busses. The most common way provided to interface with the hardware is through the NI-DAQmx drivers. These DAQmx drivers can be used to interface with hundreds of different DAQ devices across several different application development platforms. In this three part blog series, we are going to explore specifically how to use National Instruments data acquisition hardware in .NET applications. Part one will introduce a little bit of background into DAQmx and Measurement Studio. Part two will explain how to get started in adding National Instruments hardware to your .NET project. Finally, part three will provide some examples for hybrid systems combining LabVIEW and .NET as a way to fully utilize National Instruments hardware while retaining the advantages of .NET.
