Which resources are available to help me upgrade my applications from Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) to NI-DAQmx?
The Developer Zone at ni.com includes excellent resource for helping Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) users upgrade their applications to NI-DAQmx. One tutorial, Transition Traditional NI-DAQ to NI-DAQmx, shows that although many of the programming techniques are similar between Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) and NI-DAQmx, there are some slight differences. This tutorial describes the similarities and differences between the most common VIs and functions in each of the APIs. A second tutorial, Learn 10 Functions in NI-DAQmx and Solve 80 Percent of Data Acquisition Applications, describes how you can use NI-DAQmx to replace dozens of Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) functions and VIs with 10 functions and VIs in NI-DAQmx. This tutorial illustrates how to use each of the 10 VIs that make up the NI-DAQmx API core. For users who plan to upgrade to NI-DAQmx but want to use their current Traditional NI-DAQ (Legacy) applications with new NI-DAQmx-supported hardware, NI has created the Traditional NI-DAQ (
