Prevent LabView Application builder from including a dll in installer

[Journey]

Hi,

Does anyone know how can I prevent the LabView Application Builder (Installer section) from automatically including a dll in the "Files in Installation" selection box.   The "Remove File" button is also disabled for this dll.  So I can not prevent the dll  from being automatically included in the installation list and I can't remove it from the list.  My LV application is referencing this dll, but I don't want it included as part of my LabView program installation. 

(The DLL has it's own installation program as it is shared among several applications.  It is getting to be a huge problem as I have to rebuild my LabView program everytime the DLL is modified to prevent my installer from overwriting a later version of the DLL already on a machine.  And in these days of ISO, updating my program means going through a day of paper work.  And of course I don't even know the DLL has changed until I get a panicked call from our manufacturing engineers saying that they installed my LabView program and now several other programs have quit working.)

Many thanks

[rolfk]

If you make sure the DLL is in the Windows directory or the System directory and do specifically make sure that LabVIEW loads it from there by removing any other DLL with the same name from your development directory or LabVIEW directory, the application builder will assume that the DLL is provided by the system and not include it in the build and installer.

Rolf Kalbermatter