acquiring data from usb 6509 without using Measurement Studio

[AlecDickinson]

Hi, I'm new to the DAQ system implementation with NI.  I've bought the NI USB 6509 and are wondering if there is an alternative for acquiring the state of the digital inputs while using Visual Studio .net 2005 without using Measurement Studio.

I do have the drivers that came with the installation cd's and the board seems to work ok.  I will not need the Measurement Studio really because the information will just be acquired and sent into another program, so it would really be a waste of money if there was no other alternative.  So if there is another way of getting a hand onto these variables through visual studio .net 2005, it would be the best way for me.

Thanks in advance for any reply, and I apologyze if this is too much of a newbie question!

[wbadry]

Hi Alec,

    NI provides NI DAQmx which includes examples to demonstrate easily how to acquire either digital or analog signal using Visual Studio.NET even without the use of MStudio. I personally built upon theses examples a humble class for reading/writing to any digital or analog I/O with single line of code (not immitating the MStudio but try to be useful ). I'll finish documenting it and post it freely to you and anyone else interested. So just give me a couple of days and you shall find it here.

[Casino]

Hi VBCoder,

Where might this coding example reside? Would like to take a look at the code for an application I have.

Thanks!