Update service on 64bit Windows 7: What is DN 2.0??

[altenbach]

Well, I finally fixed the NI update service so it can successfully run on W7 (See here!)

The update installer tells me it

cannot install

• DN 2.0 x86 Installer (Incompatible with 64-bit platform).

Well that's cryptic!

• Is this an essential component?
• What happens if this cannot be installed? Any drawbacks?
• Why no details? A 2 letter product name is not very descriptive. 😞

[smercurio_fc]

According to this, it's .NET 2.0. Maybe some other component has that as part of its installer?

[altenbach]

That much I found too. 🙂

Well everything seems to work (just updated to 2010f2 (32 and 64 bit) and the DAQMX patch, so I am not really worried. Maybe 64bit W7 already has a better and newer NET or equivalent already present. 😉 ... Or maybe the computer will self-destruct in 30 minutes....

I simply don't like these scary dialogs offering no explanation. 😉

[J_Stape · Accepted solution]

Sorry for the confusion. 

Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit are the only two 64-bit operating systems that we support and both ship with .NET 2.0 already installed.  Therefore, the .NET 2.0 framework included with NI Update Service only supports 32-bit operating systems. We agree that this message should be suppressed from the summary screen for 64-bit users in future versions to avoid confusion.  Thanks for the feedback.