datasocket version management

[andy oxford]

I have 3 different version of Labview on my PC, 8.0.1, 8.2.1, 8.5.  My co-worker has developed an app in 8.0.1 and made an installer that uses NI Datasockets v4.4 (the one that comes bundled with LV 8.2.1).  When I try to build using his installer with my PC (running LV 8.0.1) the builder can not find the version of NI datasockets that my co-worker uses and the only version that I have available in the "additional installers" list is v4.5 which comes bundled with Labview 8.5. I do not want to update to v4.5, how do I revert to the v4.4 version that my co-worker uses?

Since having this problem I have uninstalled LV8.5 and deleted the 8.5 directory from the program files folder. I have also reinstalled LV 8.2.1 in hopes that it might relink its version of datasockets to my available installers list, but the problem remains. If I no longer have LV8.5 installed on my PC, why does LV8.0.1 only list the datasockets version from 8.5 in the "additional installers" list?

[Justin_P]

Hi Andy, Does the installer not work when you build using v4.5? Do you have the VIs that the LabVIEW 8.0.1 application were made from? I would probably just open the VIs in LabVIEW 8.5 and remake the application and installers. Is there a reason that you cannot do this? Have a great day, Justin P

[andy oxford · Accepted solution]

I did not even check to see if v4.5 would work with our product. We do not want to make this kind of change without doing an extensive test to make sure everything works the same (or better). We just want to have the same settings on our PC so that we can go back and forth developing software and not worry about differences in functionality due to a Labview revision difference. (Also, I do not like LV 8.5, it's slow and clunky in my opinion).

I think I found the solution. On my co-workers PC in the directory C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\MDF\Manifests I copied the file "NI DataSocket {36A998F0-C15C-4AFD-BCAE-1C0577CCA29A}.xml" I also copied the datasocket directory from his PC C:\Program Files\National Instruments\datasocket.  I replaced his datasocket directory with my own and copied his .xml file into my manifests directory and then NI data socket v4.4 build 8.2.1 showed up in my additional installers list and it built and distributed properly.