Chapter 1 Introduction to Measurement Studio© National Instruments Corporation 1-9 Measurement Studio User ManualLearning Measurement StudioAs you work with Measurement Studio, you might need to consultadditional resources. For detailed Measurement Studio help, includingfunction reference and in-depth documentation on developing withMeasurement Studio, refer to the NI Measurement Studio Help within theVisual Studio environment. The NI Measurement Studio Help is fullyintegrated with the Visual Studio help. You must have Visual Studioinstalled to view the online help, and you must have the Microsoft .NETFramework SDK 2.0 for Visual Studio 2005 or the Microsoft .NETFramework SDK 3.5 for Visual Studio 2008 installed in order for linksfrom Measurement Studio help topics to .NET Framework help topics towork. You can launch the NI Measurement Studio Help in the followingways:• From the Windows Start menu, select Start»All Programs»NationalInstruments»»Measurement StudioDocumentation. The help launches in a stand-alone help viewer.• From Visual Studio, select Help»Contents to view the Visual Studiotable of contents. The NI Measurement Studio Help is listed in the tableof contents.• From Visual Studio, select Measurement Studio»NI MeasurementStudio Help. The help launches within the application.Tip As you work through this manual, you will see italicized references to relevant helptopics. To find these topics, use the table of contents in the NI Measurement Studio Helpinstalled on your machine.The following resources also are available to provide you with informationabout Measurement Studio.• Getting Started information—Refer to the Measurement Studio CoreOverview topic and the Getting Started with the Measurement StudioClass Libraries section in the NI Measurement Studio Help for anintroduction to Measurement Studio and for walkthroughs that guideyou step-by-step in learning how to develop Measurement Studioapplications. For an introduction to Measurement Studio resources,refer to the Using the Measurement Studio Help topic in theNI Measurement Studio Help.• Examples—Measurement Studio installs examples organized by classlibrary, depending on the component, the version of Visual Studio orthe .NET Framework that the example supports, the version ofMeasurement Studio installed on the system, and the operating system.
