I'm creating an installer for a product that I am wanting to deploy, which uses Measurement Studio .NET Windows Forms UI Controls. Most things are working in the deployed app, except any time I open a form that loads a control with 3D styles (like the tank control, for instance), I get the following error message:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name NationalInstruments.UI.Styles3D, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
File name: "NationalInstruments.UI.Styles3D"
at NationalInstruments.UI.e.DrawFillArea(ILinearNumericPointer context, LinearNumericPointerStyleDrawArgs args, Double value)
at NationalInstruments.UI.LinearNumericPointerStyle.Draw(INumericPointer context, NumericPointerStyleDrawArgs args, Double value)
at UICM.aj.DrawForeground(ComponentDrawArgsInternal args)
at NationalInstruments.Restricted.ControlElement.a(ComponentDrawArgsInternal , Rectangle , Boolean )
at NationalInstruments.Restricted.ControlElement.DrawChildren(ComponentDrawArgsInternal args, Rectangle clipRectangle)
at NationalInstruments.Restricted.ControlElement.a(ComponentDrawArgsInternal , Rectangle , Boolean )
at NationalInstruments.Restricted.ControlElement.a(ComponentDrawArgsInternal , Rectangle )
at NationalInstruments.Restricted.ControlElement.Paint(PaintEventArgs e)
at NationalInstruments.UI.WindowsForms.ControlBase.OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.PaintWithErrorHandling(PaintEventArgs e, Int16 layer, Boolean disposeEventArgs)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmPaint(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
This looks like the error message in the ever familiar KB article 3C9F0AX0, however this should not be happening since I'm using Measurement Studio 8.0, and I am including the 2 mentioned merge modules. Actually, the installer program not automatically includes 2 ni versions of the Microsoft files and the 2 actual microsoft merge modules. I've checked the target machine, and msvcr71.dll and msvcp71.dll are installed in the system32 directory properly and have the correct version numbers. Note, the 7.0 versions of those files are NOT installed.
Are there any other dependencies for Styles3D that you can think of? This issue is happening on Windows 2000 with Measurement Studio 8.0. This configuration is still supported isn't it?
Another thing to note is that I'm using Wise for Windows Installer to deploy my product. So far it's done a better job than Visual Studio usually does at detecting dependencies, but I'm sure it's not perfect. I also use a config file with my application that forces it to always bind to the .NET Framework 1.1 instead of rolling forward to the .NET Framework 2.0.
Please Help!
-Matt
