NI DAQ Assistant

To simplify the creation of NI-DAQmx projects, NI provides the NI DAQ Assistant. The DAQ Assistant helps you write code to measure or generate data with NI-DAQmx devices. The DAQ Assistant provides a user interface within the Visual Studio environment. You use the DAQ Assistant user interface to interactively configure measurement tasks, channels, and scales. The DAQ Assistant generates a Visual Basic .NET or Visual C# class, referred to as a DAQmx Task class. The DAQmx Task class includes code that programmatically configures the measurement task that you created interactively. For .NET projects, the DAQ Assistant also generates a .NET DAQ component that uses the generated DAQmx Task class.

Note To use the DAQ Assistant, your DAQ device must be connected to your system and you must be able to communicate with your DAQ device.

The code generated by the DAQ Assistant uses the Measurement Studio DAQmx .NET class library. You also can use these class libraries to programmatically develop a DAQ project.