This book is written based upon VEE Pro Version 6.2. It contains eighteen lessons and six appendixes. The labs within the lessons introduce ActiveX support, MATLABŪ functionality and display capabilities, and support for the new GPIB converters. VEE Pro Version 6.2 is backwards compatible to at least VEE version 5.01. The labs of all eighteen lessons included in this book have been verified, opened, and run in versions 5.01, 6.01, and 6.2. Programs that work in versions 6 will work similarly in versions 5. Previous editions of this book have been used successfully with three groups of students applying VEE to laboratory experiments, manufacturing systems, and process-control applications. VEE Pro is popular among technicians, technologists, and design engineers as well as with engineers and scientists. We have prepared this book with the former group in mind. For those of you who are interested in learning VEE Pro in greater depth than is presented in this book or are designing complex analysis and monitoring systems, there are four excellent books: • VEE Pro User’s Guide; Chapter 12 (Platform Specifics and Web Monitoring) • VEE Pro User’s Guide; Additional Lab Exercises (Appendix A) • VEE Pro Advanced Programming Techniques • Agilent IO Libraries Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows Recent improvements from Agilent can be accessed via the www.agilent.com Web site. The latest VEE Pro developments and on-line HELP are included as well.
Both authors are former members of the faculty of Northeastern University, Boston; they have more than five years experience of VEE-based program development in academic and industrial environments. They have tested previous formulations of this text on their classes and refined the book accordingly. Robert Angus is an author of Planning, Performing and Controlling Projects 3/e Prentice Hall (2003) and of Math at Work: Book 1, A Review of Arithmetic Prentice Hall (1999).