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Chapter 6 Planning Your Application
Program
6.1 Introduction
After completing the system configuration, you can begin to plan the
application program. This chapter introduces two programming tools for
users to execute system data acquisition and control. The DLL drivers
and command sets provide a friendly interface between your applications
and ADAM-6000 I/O modules.
6.2 ADAM .NET Class Library
Advantech ADAM .NET Class library enables you quickly and easily
develop your application programs written in the Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET 2003. The ADAM .NET Class library includes all necessary func-
tions to utilize ADAM-6000 modules.
Before installing ADAM .NET Class library, you have to install the
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 as well as the Microsoft Visual Stu-
dio .NET 2003 documentation. For WinCE programmers, you also need
to install the ActiveSync and Windows CE .NET Utilities v1.1 for Visual
Studio .NET 2003 from Microsoft website. Then, you can install the
ADAM .NET Class library by the setup file included in ADAM CD. You
can also free download the installation file at the Advantech website:
http://www.advantech.com. Run the installation setup file Adam.NET
Class Library.exe, that it will install ADAM .NET Class library for
Win32 and WinCE platform.
After you complete the installation of the ADAM .NET Class library, the
Win32 Class library will be installed into the following path:
Program
Files\Advantech\ Adam.NET Class Library\VS2003 , and the WinCE
Class library will be installed into the following path: Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\ CompactFrame-
workSDK\v1.0.5000\Windows CE
.