How do i start to create a simple GPIB program in Visual Basic

[noviceGPIB]

Hi, I'm a College student in Computer Science in Mexico and I was assigned a project wich consists of designing a program (preferably Visual Basic) that could send commands and querys to a Thermotron thermal chamber model # SM-32C which uses instrument driver 4800 through the GPIB bus. I need to send these commands via .txt or .csv file wich contains temperatures and their duration time intervals. I'm a little lost as to how to start developing or what I need to develop this kind of project. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

[smercurio_fc]

Are you planning to use VISA or NI-488.2? Is this "regular" VB, or VB.NET?

For NI-488.2 there are several examples that ship with the NI-488.2 drivers that are written in Visual Basic. You should check in the "Program Files\National Instruments\NI-488.2\Languages\Visual Basic" directory.

For VISA there's an example in the "C:\VXIPNP\WinNT\NIvisa\Examples\Vb5\General" directory. You can also look at this thread.

If you're working in .NET you probably want to install the Measurement Studio support for .NET.