Referencing National Instrument DLL's crashes Visual Studio 2008

[danielruetimann]

I am referencing my application to NationalInstruments.Common.dll (8.9.35.302) and NationalInstruments.DAQmx.dll (9.1.35.15).

My problem: if the main window of my application ist open in the Visual Studio IDE and I then start debugging (means: run my application) then the Visual Studio crashes.

If I remove the references to the NationalInstruments DLL the Visual Studio never crashes.

Does anybody have similar experiences and any possible reason/solution to this?

[RamonaL]

HI Daniel,

normallly a crash happens, when the call is wrong - means wrong parameters, so that wrong memory is allocated.

Can you post the code?

Thanks

[danielruetimann]

There is no code yet. I have removed all code that is accessing NI-DAQ from my project. I am only referencing the DLLs (.NET components) in my project settings. (Visual Studio 2008 --> Solution Explorer --> References).

[RamonaL]

Can you please post your whole project?

Thanks!

[nickb]

Hello -

Just curious, do you have Visual Studio 2010 installed on this machine where Visual Studio 2008 is crashing??

NickB

National Instruments

[danielruetimann]

Interesting question 🙂

I had Visual Studio 2010 installed but removed it again later. But really my problems started, after Visual Studio 2010 has been installed!

I am currently setting up a "clean" new PC to find out if the error will also occur there....

[nickb]

We do know of an issue with installing Visual Studio 2010 alongside National Instruments driver software.  However, because of the nature of the fix, I would like to contact you offline regarding a fix for this issue.  Do I have your permission to contact the forum administrator and get your email address?

Thanks -

NickB

National Instruments

[danielruetimann]

I would be very happy if you contact me by email. Please feel free to get my address from the administrator.

[nickb]

Thanks - I will be contacting you as soon as the forum administrator gets back to me.

Also - just FYI and for anyone else who may run into this in the future, there is a KB for this issue.  However, because of the current nature of the fix for this issue, it simply asks you to contact NI support.  The KB will be updated as a more sustainable fix becomes available.

Thanks again - and sorry for any inconvenience,

NickB

National Instruments

[smoon]

I am having a related problem to this. I am trying to use DAQmx 9.1.35.15 in a .net 4.0 WPF application using VS2010. The application compiles fine and VS2010 does not crash, but when I run the application in debug mode I get the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'NationalInstruments.DAQmx.dll' or one of its dependencies. A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007045A).

Is it possible that this related to the issue in this thread?

I do not have VS2008 installed.

Thanks,

Steven