How can we Deploy Measurement Studio 2013 with Visual Studio 2017 and DAQmx

[NicholasM]

Greetings!

We have finished our application and are now looking to deploy it to the customer's PC. The application was built with Visual Studio 2017 and worked with major success on our development platform; however, we've not yet been able to successfully deploy the application to the target PC without installing the developer's edition of Measurement Studio.

Initially we used VS2017 + Measurement Studio 2013 + DAQmx 17.6 runtime. This was the bare bones approach with the latest tools we had on-hand. Though, the NI community later discovered an issue deploying Measurement Studio with DAQmx 17.6.

See: Error 2765 Developing a Program in Visual Studio™ and NI-488.2

The issue being that MSI installer is unable to install the merge modules that are required for running Measurement Studio/DAQmx.

The question right now is whether it is possible to deploy without the workaround suggested in the article. It appears that the Measurement Studio Installer Builder tool isn't available in the 2013 edition.

At this moment, we've also checked the latest version of DAQmx (VS2017 + MS2013 + DAQmx 18.6). It appears that this issue was not yet fixed.

It might be possible to try an earlier version of DAQmx (say 9.6.1), but this does break some of the API's we are using. This might be a decent option if we can locate the NI-DAQmx API documentation.

Help is much appreciated!

[Dafrizzy]

Hey Nicholas,

From my understanding, DAQmx 18 will not install a new policy file if policy.17.5.NationalInstruments.Common is still installed. I know other users have had success working around this error by either uninstalling all DAQmx software (ensuring policy.17.5.NationalInstruments.Common.dll is removed) then reinstalling a different version of DAQmx (e.g. 16.0) or using an XCOPY deployment if Measurement Studio Installer Builder is not available.