George, do you have the nids.dll on your system? It should be in
C:\windows\system32. Can you successfully build any of the datasocket examples in
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\National Instruments\MStudioVS6\VB\Samples\DataSocket ? What permissions does your user have on the XP machine, are they and administrator?
Richard S -- National Instruments -- (former) Applications Engineer -- Data Acquisition with TestStand