BioEra SDK

Updated on March 11, 2009. The most recent version of this manual can be accessed here.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1

.NET SDK. 1

Quick start: 1

API: 1

Introduction

BioEra SDK is for developers how want to connect to BioEra from their software.

.NET SDK

SDK for .NET can be downloaded here.

It contains two projects: API and Sample with full source code. Sample demonstrates how to use API classes.

Quick start:

1. Download and unzip to a temporary folder the .NET SDK file.
2. Download example design file, and put it in ‘design’ BioEra folder.
3. Start BioEra and open the above sdk.bpd design.
4. Open the BioEraSDK.sln solution file in Visual Studio 2005 or later.
5. In Visual Studio start the Sample application.
6. Sample GUI application has two buttons Connect and Start BioEra; connect first then start/stop bioera.

API:

API contains two main classes XmlNetServer and XmlNetController. Each of them can be used to interact with corresponding BioEra element (of the same name) in BioEra design (both are included in the sdk.bpd example design). More information about those elements can be found in BioEra manual.

The XmlNetServer is for data acquisition, data samples are sent from BioEra as numbers (double) to an external application.

The XmlNetController allows BioEra state control, for example Start/Stop/Pause etc. SDK sample demonstrates only how to start and stop processing, but there are many commands available.