Diployment using Installshield

[kwhitehead]

Hi, my conpany has a volume license for Measurement Studio 2013. We currently have products that communicate over RS232, TCPIP and GPIB. We are wanting to upgrade all our product communications to use a single library and like the national instruments sollution. At the moment I have done a bunch of testing using NationalInstrument.Visans library and we would like to use this in our application. We use InstallShield 2012 to install our product and was wondering if you have any instructions or examples doing this? Also, from reading the license agreements and posts on-line it appears I only need to include "Copyright © [insert year] National Instruments Corporation. All Rights Reserved." in our about screen and documentation. Is that all I need? Are there any other restrictions I am missing regarding deploying our application with the National Instrument libraries?

Thank you

[kwhitehead]

I forgot to mention that we are using Measurement studio with Visual Studio 2012.

[Gloorious_Leader]

Hello,

The officially supported method for creating installers with Measurement Studio for Visual Studio 2012 is to use WiX. InstallShield is not officially supported for use with Measurement Studio. What are you inteding to do with your installer? Is it an internal application?

[kwhitehead]

No this is a commercial product that interfaces to different types of equipment using GPIB, Ethernet, RS232. We have different libraries that we have developed over the years to do this communications but we desire to condense all of these libraries into a single DLL written with a more modern language. The DLL is distributed with our applications using installshield as the installer. We probably could use wix and have our installer call the wix installer. We have to do that for other items.

We would like to use the NI libraries for our new DLL but it will depend on the licensing and if there are royalties. We have this measurement studio license but i wasn't sure how much that covered for deployment of commercial products.

As an alternative, if there are royalty or licensing issues, can we have our library use the GPIB libraries if the end user has them already installed from the cards or software they have purchased? I have experimented in disabling the GPIB support if the NI libraries are not present.

Thank you for your time

[Gloorious_Leader]

This is not a question that can be easily answered on the forums, which are intended more for technical support. I would suggest contacting your National Instruments representative to discuss this. He or she will be better equipped to answer your question.