Creating installer of CRio code for production deployment

[Aws_Khudhair]

Hi everyone,

I have large project that is going into production soon. I need to be able to create some sort of installer that I can provide to our production department so that they can just run it and it will load the required VIs and crio drivers (NI-RIO for example) without requiring them to have labview installed on their computer.  Idealy this would work like a standard windows application installer where the user just needs to double click the exe (or msi) and the application would install with everything required to run it.  Is something like this possible for CRio code?

Thank you very much

Aws

[dwisti]

Aws,

There are tools NI created to help with replicating RT targets.  The first of these tool is created was called the Real-Time Target System Replication Tools.  I'm still using these replication tools for 2011 Real-Time targets.  As an OEM, I had to create such a tool for our end-users.  I made the process very simple for end users to backup or restore RT targets using the replication tools.  FYI, there are some new tools to do the same thing called NI System Configuration.  I have not used NI System Configuration API yet because they have lacked features I needed compared to the replication tools.  Its possible the NI System Configuration API in 2012 has these features now.

My biggest problem with the replication tools and the NI system configuration is all the VIs are locked.  If you want to do something other then what NI gives you, then your on your own.

David