Hi, Something has changed in my PC. I can drag and drop NI controls into forms but those are not visible anymore when the form is reopened. Please see the following picture: I can compile the software and everything works OK in the compiled program.. Just the designer mode has the problem.. I have VS2013 and MS3013. The environment has been configured to work together and it has been OK one year or something. Maybe something happened when I tried to update Measurement Sudio.. there were some new option for VS2013 but I never could install that. br, Ilkka

Hi, Ilkka This issue is being caused because the Visual Studio designer is loading NationalInstruments.Common from the program files directory instead of from the GAC. This seems to be happening because the Visual Studio designer is loading assemblies in a way that ignores configuration files. The solution is to copy the latest version of Common and its dependencies to the program files directory where all the current Measurement Studio assemblies are. To fix the issue: Copy NationalInstruments.Common.dll from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\NationalInstruments.Common\<latest version>\ to C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\MeasurementStudio<version>\DotNET\Assemblies\Current. Copy NationalInstruments.NiLmClientDLL.dll fromC:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\NationalInstruments.NiLmClientDLL\<latest version>\ to C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\MeasurementStudio<version>\DotNET\Assemblies\Current. Copy NationalInstruments.MStudioCLM.dll from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\NationalInstruments.MStudioCLM\<latest version>\ to C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\MeasurementStudio<version>\DotNET\Assemblies\Current. I use a few placeholders in the steps. <version> is the version of Visual Studio support you have installed (e.g., VS2012). <latest version> is the latest version of the assembly which exists in the GAC folder (e.g., v4.0_15.0.40.32769__dc6ad606294fc298). This issue does not appear to happen in Visual Studio 2010 and earlier. At this point, it seems like a bug in the Visual Studio 2012 and later design view. I will update this page when we uncover more in our investigation. Would you mind posting a picture of the contents of C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\NationalInstruments.Common\ here? Warm regards,

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Can you start a new thread for the Installer Builder registry key problem you are experiencing? I'd like to address it, but I want it to be more visible to other users who might be searching for it.

Thanks!

Daniel Dorroh
National Instruments

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