Tested version: 18.0 full
Installer size: 732 MB for the "full" installer. The "runtime" installer is only 122 MB. They don't explain what the difference is.
Link: download link
DLL name: nivisa64.dll
Documentation: CHM file.
Examples: includes eighteen C examples and five .NET examples.
Most of the action happens in Measurement and Automation Explorer (MAX).
MAX is the hub for a dozen devices/protocols supported by NI which makes UI complex. The left sidebar tree has a ton of stuff in it:
The "Devices and Interfaces" tree shows connected instruments, which makes sense.
The "Software" tree is mostly useless. Each item just gives you a table of version, description, and path, except for a page of NI-VISA Options which is hard to get to.
MAX can open the Interactive Control utility, which in turn can start I/O Trace. That's about it.
You can open the programming manual from the MAX Help menu:
MAX also has the alias manager inside of it.
Handled correctly. There are links to all the tools, documentation, and examples.
Measurement and Automation Explorer (MAX):
Interactive Control:
I/O Trace:
Conflict Manager inside MAX:
