Hi,
I previously had full version of NI-VISA (NIVISA1400full) installed on my PC (Win7). The only requirement I have is to be able to use the Visa library to write instrument drivers in Python. With the full install, I was accessing the library at the following location "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\National Instruments\\MeasurementStudioVS2012\\DotNET\\Assemblies\\Current\\NationalInstruments.VisaNS.dll". I now want to prove out that the runtime version of the NI-VISA install will provide what I need also (Visa library access). I have selected both the '.NET 4.0-4.5.1 Runtime Support (IVI)' option and the '.NET 4.5 Runtime Support (NS)' from the 18.5 Runtime Engine install.
My questions are:
1: Where are the libraries installed? Either NI-VISA or VisaNS.
2: I removed the visa32.dll file from the C:\WINDOWS\sysWOW64 before the installation but this was not re-installed with the Runtime version installation. What will install this file and how does this file differ from full version NationalInstruments.VisaNS.dll?
Thanks,
Mick