Watlow F4 Controller with LabView

Hello all,
I have a HX300 circulating chiller that uses a Watlow F4 controller. I want to control the F4 controller and monitor the conditions from it such as pressure rate and temperature using LabView. I heard of the Modbus driver that helps make this communication possible and have downloaded it. I am using the LabView 8.6 version and followed the necessary steps to include it into Labview. I have very little experience with Labview and am wondering how to begin writing the code for this. Any help is very much appreciated!
Thank you,
Eric
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Start here:
http://www.ni.com/gettingstarted/labviewbasics/
and here:
http://www.ni.com/academic/students/learn/
and here:
http://labviewwiki.org/LabVIEW_tutorial#External_Links
And if you have an active SSP here:
http://sine.ni.com/myni/self-paced-training/app/main.xhtml
After all of that open the Examples in the code you posted and see if they work.
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