Hi All,
I have made an application in VS2008 & MeasurementStudio that use DAQ-mx, and I have (also in Visual Studio) managed to make a Set-up & deployment project that installs it.
It all works if Daq-mx is installed on the target PC before I install my program.
As I read the visual Studio Documentation, an elegant way to ensure that Daq-mx is installed on the target machine, is the way that the installer installs the correct version of .NET (if not already on the target machine). It involves that the DAQ-mx installer is registered in Visual studios list of "prerequisits" as described in :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165429(v=VS.90).aspx
and that I then, in my "Set-up and Deployment" project for my application, specify that DAQmx is a prerequisite.
This involves, apart for the DAQmx setup-program (from NI's website), a manifest. There is a tool for making the manifest :http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bmg, but this tool is not documented very well and difficult to use for a "newbie" as me.
Has anyone succeeded in registering DAQ-mx into Visual Studio's list of possibe "prerequisites " ?
Can the necessary manifest be downloaded from NI's website ?
Morten
