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UI Controls Designed for Engineering

Waveform and Scatter Graphs

Design-Time Productivity Tools

Network Connectivity and Data-Binding

Additional Resources

 

UI Controls Designed For Engineering  

Unlike most Visual Studio tools, Measurement Studio is designed for building test, measurement, and control applications. To this end, it offers the ability to create highly technical engineering and scientific displays. Whether you are creating a simple data-logging program for the lab or a complex production test system, Measurement Studio provides all the tools needed to create informative and intuitive user experiences for internal or commercial use.

Measurement Studio offers the following UI controls for Windows Client and ASP.NET web applications to visualize and interact with data:

 

Windows Forms Controls	ASP.NET Controls	WPF Controls
Waveform Graph	Waveform Graph	Waveform Graph
Scatter Graph	Scatter Graph	Scatter Graph
Digital Graph	Digital Graph	Intensity  Graph
Intensity  Graph	Complex Graph	Polar Graph
Complex Graph	Legend	Legend
Legend	Switch	Graph Interaction Palette
Switch and LED	LED	LED
Meter	Meter	Slide
Knob	Knob	Meter
Tank	Tank	Gauge
Thermometer	Thermometer	Knob
Gauge	Gauge	Numeric Text Box
Numeric Edit	Numeric Edit	Tank
Slide	Slide	Switch
Property Editor		Arrow Button
LED Array		Power Button
Switch Array		Boolean Content Button
Numeric Array

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Waveform and Scatter Graphs

With Measurement Studio, you gain insight into your data with .NET 2D waveform and scatter graph controls for displaying 2D data and the .NET intensity graph for displaying 3D data. The scatter graph control displays a graph of X and Y data pairs. The waveform graph control displays data that is uniformly spaced in one dimension. Using annotations, you can easily highlight points or ranges of interest. Both graph controls include many properties that you can use to configure the appearance and behavior of the graph. For example, you can easily configure properties such as the caption text, caption background color, and color of the graph frame.
 

 

Key graph features include the following:

• Multiple x and y axes that are fully customizable
• Linear and log scale
• Multiple plots
• Multiple cursors, which display a crosshair on a graph to mark a specific point or region on the graph
• Plotting and charting
• Annotations, which use range or point annotations to dynamically select regions of interest
• Zooming and panning features so you can see different views of your data
• The ability to zoom in and out of your data either programmatically or interactively; zoom around a point or on a selected rectangle
• The ability to pan left and right to change the view of the graph that you see
• Grid lines

 

Design-Time Productivity Tools

Whether you are using Windows Forms or Web Forms controls, Measurement Studio includes productivity features that give you the ability to graphically interact with your UIs. The UI controls include auto format menus, editors, and property page enhancements.
With auto format menus, you can quickly choose from predefined property formats. Editors are included for components like plots, annotations, and axes, allowing you to interactively add and edit your UI controls. Property page enhancements include arc editors and graphical representations of UI styles.

 

 

Network Connectivity and Data-Binding

Whether you are passing data between applications or over the Internet, Measurement Studio makes sharing measurement data easy. With network variables—a programming tool designed specifically for publishing and subscribing to live data in measurement and automation applications—you can share live data with one or more client applications on a network without worrying about data formats or network protocols.

Additionally, the Technical Data Management Streaming (TDMS) class libraries give you the ability to scale to your specific project requirements and easily attach descriptive information to your measurements while streaming your data to disk.

 

Key networking features include the following:

• Read and write data between different data sources and targets
• Specify data sources and targets through a URL scheme
• Use browsing features to quickly locate data items on other computers
• Bind to Windows Forms and Web Forms controls

 

Additional Resources

Other Features in Measurement Studio 

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