How do I deploy software the uses NI-VISA?

[Ryan_F]

Hey Josef,

The NationalInstruments.Common.dll should be located in the Assemblies folder of the VISA driver. It should also be included in other drivers that you have installed on your computer located in this folder (for example - NationalInstruments.NI4882.dll, NationalInstruments.DAQmx.dll, or NationalInstruments.VisaNS.dll). If you do not see the NationalInstruments.Common.dll in this location, first try a search and see if you can find it in a different location. If the DLL is in a different location, copy it to the directory where the other VISA Assemblies are located. If you cannot find the NationalInstruments.Common.dll anywhere on your computer, then most likely something was corrupted during the installation procedure.

Thank you,

Ryan

[seppmuc]

Hi Ryan,

thanks for your help. I'll try that out.

Best regards,

Josef

[guillo]

I'm having the same issue. I'm trying to figure out which msi packages I need to deploy with my application to install Visa support? We have the NI Measurement Studio 8.6.1. I have alredy installed Ni-Visa runtime 4.4.1. I also have NationalInstruments.VisaNS.dll, NationalInstruments.Common.dll and NationalInstruments.Common.Native.dll files in the same folder I'm running my application.´Now the error message says that "A code library required by VISA could not be located or loaded.  VISA error code -1073807202 (0xBFFF009E), ErrorLibraryNotFound".

What is that I'm still need to install?

[EEsRULEtheWORLD]

Hi guillo!

What exactly are you trying to interface with? 

This error has been seen with our FieldPointRT Controllers, where NI-Serial RT has not been installed.  Check out this KnowledgeBase for more information in troubleshooting this issue. 

If you are just trying to communicate with your serial ports, you may either have to upgrade your versions of NI-VISA or NI-Serial or copy in the Visa32.dll from another system.  This KnowledgeBase describes the solutions for this issue.

This error has also been seen when communicating with GPIB boards.  To resolve this issue, you will need to uninstall and then reinstall NI-VISA.  This KnowledgeBase will give more information regarding this issue.

Let me know if you need any more help.  I hope you're having a great day!

[guillo]

I'm using NI GBIP-USB-B.

I'm trying to create an installation package that includes everything needed to use my application (including Visa). So that user of me application do not need to install separatelly Visa. It need to now what are the merge modules and/or msi packages that I need to install in my installation to do that.

[EEsRULEtheWORLD]

Hi guillo,

In order to eradicate the error that you were receiving, you will need to uninstall all existing versions of  VISA and then reinstall the lastest version of VISA.

To create an installation package, follow this tutorial and reference the Installers (Windows) section.

Have a great day!