Problems loading NI assembly in Click-Once Application

[Musent]

I built an application to measure current consumption from a device in Visual Studio 2012. I built a library for the National Instruments USB-6008 and added the dll from C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\MeasurementStudioVS2012\DotNET\Assemblies\Current, which is 9.9. Everything ran smoothly on my dev machine so I pushed all changes to the production server, which is packaged as a Click-Once app.

On the machine running the actual Click-Once app, I downloaded and installed the driver fir 9.9 from here: https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-daq-mx.html#288377. When the application gets to the point where it measures the current consumption, I get the error: 

System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'NationalInstruments.DAQmx, Version=9.9.45.39, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4febd62461bf11a4' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
File name: 'NationalInstruments.DAQmx, Version=9.9.45.39, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4febd62461bf11a4'

 What am I doing wrong?

[James-B]

Hi Musent,

Unfortunately, ClickOnce deployment is not supported with Measurement Studio or any National Instruments .NET components, including any NI drivers.  The following knowledge base article documents this pretty well.

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/148A815DF9379F8786257560005DB06A?OpenDocument 

If you read through that and check out the links at the bottom, it suggests using a windows installer and installing these components separately.

[Musent · Accepted solution]

The solution I found for this problem was to install the Examples for Measurement Studio. Not sure why this needs to be installed on the machine running the Clickk-Once App though.