2009 installer with DAQmx

[Dave_Thomson]

Ecleamus R.,

    I'll try the Full install and get back to you.  I'm leaving town for a week, so it will be a while.

DaveT

[Dave_Thomson]

Ecleamus,

   Frankly, I didn't expect that including the full DAQmx in the installer would resolve the problem.  I don't see why it would.  But I gave it a try and the first test seems to indicate that it does indeed resolve the problem!  Thanks for the tip.  We'll proceed down this road, and if we encounter additional issues, we'll be in touch...

Thanks again,

    Dave

[Ecleamus]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the update. Glad to know you've gotten past this stumbling block. You're input definitely helps us know what to improve in the future.

Some background to why it works:

As a response to customer feedback concerning our installer performance, starting in NI-DAQmx 9.0, we refactored our installer distribution (as well as several driver components for version compatibility) to allow for a smaller deployment size, shorter install time, and smaller disk footprint (i.e. introduction of Core (device driver only), Configuration (for hardware configuration support), and Full (ADE support) subsets). These changes forced us to require a Full distribution to upgrade pre-9.0 distributions since otherwise you could end up with incompatible components on your system. The end result is an improved deployment experience for 9.0+ installers but an unchanged experience for deployments that have to address the pre-9.0 upgrade cases.

Cheers,

-Ecleamus

[Dave_Thomson]

Thanks.  That explains it.

DaveT