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One of the pitfalls of programming test and measurement applications in C# .NET is the lack of visualization tools needed to debug waveform and array types.  These Visual Studio Visualizers, inspired by the custom probes in LabVIEW, aims to reduce the time from acquisition to visualization.   A living repository can be found on GitHub.

In a tutorial on ni.com, I provided a library to use the rtl-based sdrs with both Labview for Windows and in a Labview RT environment.  For those who don't know, rtl-sdrs are little small $20.00 USB dongles which are normally used for digital video reception on the PC.  It is possible, however, to access the raw IQ data stream and therefore to use the dongle as a broadband RF receiver between 50MHz and 1.8GHz(model specific).  While the bandwidth at 2.4MHz is tiny by today's professional standards, it's still the cheapest option to begin working with RF and SDRs.  Please check out the original tutorials for more information and some background.