How to start NI-VISA Driver Development Wizard

[cyrax]

Im now reading this manual:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4478

 i have labview8.6 on this pc, and i installed NI-VISA 4.6... as the manual says:

1. To open the DDW, select Start»Programs»National Instruments»VISA»VISA Driver Developer Wizard.

but the thing is, in the menu VISA, there is just documentation... there is no VISA Driver Developer Wizard... however i did install NI-VISA 4.6... any ideas? 

[pflores]

Hello,

My first hunch is that not all the components of NI-VISA were installed correctly. Try running the VISA 4.6 installer again and pay particular attention to this page. Be sure that the Driver Development feature is set to install.

Good luck!

[cyrax]

of course i did that!

i installed everything in that list! and after installation there was VISA meny in Start->national instruments, but there was no anything else in that menu except documentation!!

any ideas?

I am very new to LabVIEW but i begin to hate it! The only reason i began learning labview is because people working on some project use it (for some unknown reason...since everything could be done in C, even though its longer). The documentation is poor the software is buggy and everything is not straightforward!

ok...so any ideas about the problem? thanks anyway

[Dennis_Knutson]

On my pc (win xp), the path is "C:\Program Files\IVI Foundation\VISA\WinNT\NIvisa\NI-VISA Driver Wizard.exe". Do you have anything there? What OS are you using and are you logged in as admin?

[cyrax]

well there is such a folder in my PC, but i dont have wizard executable!

and yes its im admin cuz its my PC.

i have the following files:

 niLxiDiscovery.exe

 PassportRegEdit.exe

 NiVisaCom.dll

 Readme.html

and USB and VXI folders....

so thats just it... any ideas? 

[cyrax]

i tried to uninstall/install again...no luck!! damn! any ideas? i wonder why is it like that...

i also tried to search docs online and other forums etc...for installation instructions...there seems nothing special about it, but for some reason its not working!!

[Song_D]

cyrax,

As Peter pointed out earlier, there appears to be some problem with the "Driver Development" sub-component. Without access to your machine, I can't say exactly what happened there, but this is not a typical user experience. 

In order to figure out the root cause, a first step might be to look at the installer log. If you installed the latest VISA, it should generate a log, as described in the KB below. If you could upload the summary log and the detailed one corresponding to VISA installation, that would be very helpful.

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/ACAA8550534EA407862574B80074DEDF

[cyrax]

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 Here goes the summary:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="no" ?> 
- <summary>
- <installEvent eventType="install" returnCode="3010" timeStamp="Sat Aug 22 20:33:27 2009" version="1.0">
  <distribution>LabVIEW 8.6</distribution> 
  <fileName>1859020927 - LabVIEW 8.6.xml</fileName> 
  </installEvent>
- <installEvent eventType="install" returnCode="3010" timeStamp="Sat Dec 12 17:40:07 2009" version="1.0">
  <distribution>NI-VISA 4.6 Runtime</distribution> 
  <fileName>1970991608 - NI-VISA 4.6 Runtime.xml</fileName> 
  </installEvent>
- <installEvent eventType="install" returnCode="-1" timeStamp="Sat Dec 12 19:50:58 2009" version="1.0">
  <distribution>NI-VISA 4.6 Runtime</distribution> 
  <fileName>1971012658 - NI-VISA 4.6 Runtime.xml</fileName> 
  </installEvent>
- <installEvent eventType="install" returnCode="-1" timeStamp="Mon Dec 14 20:40:05 2009" version="1.0">
  <distribution>NI-VISA 4.6 Runtime</distribution> 
  <fileName>1973021605 - NI-VISA 4.6 Runtime.xml</fileName> 
  </installEvent>
- <installEvent eventType="install" returnCode="0" timeStamp="Mon Dec 14 20:43:22 2009" version="1.0">
  <distribution>NI-VISA 4.6 Runtime</distribution> 
  <fileName>1973021922 - NI-VISA 4.6 Runtime.xml</fileName> 
  </installEvent>
  </summary>
NI visa 4.6 runtime:
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="no" ?> 
- <installDetails version="1.0">
- <nidist.id>
- <VolumeId>
  <DistributionGUID>{98EFA507-DC71-41BF-8D31-C9175648191E}</DistributionGUID> 
  <DistPackageGUID>{35AD63AE-7905-4025-ADED-6A2FA9B62B3E}</DistPackageGUID> 
  <DistributionVersion>4.6.0.30</DistributionVersion> 
  <DistributionType>Driver</DistributionType> 
  <DistributionLanguage>9,17</DistributionLanguage> 
  <Volume>1</Volume> 
  <ExePath>setup.exe</ExePath> 
  <UpdateInfoFile /> 
  </VolumeId>
  </nidist.id>
- <timeStamps>
  <start>Mon Dec 14 20:43:22 2009</start> 
  <initializationEnd>Mon Dec 14 20:43:24 2009</initializationEnd> 
  <end>Mon Dec 14 20:43:55 2009</end> 
  </timeStamps>
  <path>C:\National Instruments Downloads\NI-VISA Runtime\4.6\</path> 
  <distributionType>NI</distributionType> 
  <launchedBy>User</launchedBy> 
- <features>
- <feature key="VisaSharedComponents32.VSAR02" name="VISA Shared Components 32-Bit fake feature">
  <oldState>absent</oldState> 
  <newState>local</newState> 
  </feature>
  </features>
- <customExecute>
- <customExecute name="Uninstaller Update Utility">
  <commandLine>"C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\NIUninstaller\uninst.exe" /NIARP Show</commandLine> 
  <returnCode>0</returnCode> 
  </customExecute>
  </customExecute>
  <returnCode>0</returnCode> 
  </installDetails>
so any ideas? 
 

[Song_D · Accepted solution]

That actually explains the problem. You are installing VISA runtime. If you start the installer again, you will see that the features tree looks different than the one Peter posted.

The component you need, Driver Development Wizard, is in the full VISA distribution, which you can download from the link below. The runtime is typically intended for deployed application. The development tools are absent from runtime and are only found in the full distribution.

http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/1370/lang/en

[cyrax]

yes got it, thank u. there were no manuals really telling abt such an installing process.