If you are using Measurement Studio with Visual Studio 2010 or earlier, see How to Perform Common Tasks in Installer Builder for instructions on deploying your application.Ĭomplete the following steps to build an installation package in Visual Studio 2012 or later: Note: If you are using a version of Measurement Studio which includes the Measurement Studio Installer Builder, see Getting Started with Measurement Studio Installer Builder for the recommended method of deploying your application.

Measurement Studio 2013 ships with an example, created using WiX, that you can modify to create an installer for your application. The WiX toolset is a set of open source tools for building Windows installation packages, and it integrates into Visual Studio. If you do not have access to the Measurement Studio Installer Builder, National Instruments recommends creating your installer with the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset. Along with assemblies and libraries, Measurement Studio ships a set of redistributable merge modules to be merged into an installation package using a merge tool. NET application that uses Measurement Studio libraries to run properly on a target machine, the target machine must contain those Measurement Studio libraries.

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