National Instruments remote monitoring

National Instruments has announced Measurement Studio 8.5 to add test and measurement functionality to the latest Microsoft development environment with a complete set of .NET class libraries, tools and data acquisition driver support for Visual Studio 2008.

The software includes ASP.NET AJAX-compatible user interface controls and network variable communication functions for creating responsive remote monitoring web applications.

Because development is no longer tied to a specific version of the .NET framework, engineers can now add functionality to existing projects without having to upgrade to a new .NET framework.

Engineers can also add data acquisition functionality to their web and Windows projects with NI-DAQmx driver support for Visual Studio 2008.

With ASP.NET AJAX compatibility and improved network variable functionality available in the Measurement Studio ASP.NET web forms controls, engineers can create responsive web pages.

By using Measurement Studio ASP.NET scientific controls along with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX server controls, engineers can reduce the amount of data transferred between the client and server.

The latest version of Measurement Studio supports the NI-DAQmx and NI-SCOPE .NET drivers, which include memory-optimised analog waveform read operations that re-use memory allocated in previous analog waveform functions and improve the performance of applications acquiring large amounts of data.

Engineers can decrease their application development time by downloading from more than 100 ready-to-run text-based, data acquisition examples.