USB 6501 Deployment

[stc100]

Now that my development based on the USB 6501 is completed, I am searching how to deploy the runtime application on different machines each equipped with a OEM 6501 and some of my hardware. The deployment of the USB 6501 is giving me headaches. I've included the 2 required assemblies into the GAC, (NationalInstruments.common and NationalInstruments.daqmx) and included the required dll into the system path (NationalInstruments.common.dll and .xml  and NationalInstruments.DAQMX.dll and .xml)

I am still missing some runtime dll as well as the USB 6501 driver.

I don't want to install the 400mb from the CD into the runtime machines, and I don't see into the documentation the information I need.

Question1: Where is the USB 6501 driver is to be found? (On the CD... but where ?)

Question2: What runtime Dll do I have to include (Of course this wil depends of the functions used, but where are they anyway ?)

Thank's for your support.

Thierry

[Dennis_Knutson]

This question comes up all of the time. The only option NI has is to fully install DAQmx.

[Tiben]

I need to deploy just the USB-6501 usb drivers and support dlls to a dozen systems (WinXp) for an application written in VS 2008 vb.net using daqMx

How can I deploy the software without having to install the entire DAQMX v.9.3 package (over 1GB of files, most not required for the end system)

(it's been 5 years, surely this has been resolved by now)

thanks,

Thomas

[Seth_B.]

What you need is the NI-DAQmx Core runtime.  This contains the bare minimum needed to run a compiled program.

[Tiben]

Thanks Seth!

That's exactly what I was looking for, good to get these old threads updated, this was one of the first to pop up in Google...

Thomas