Measurement Studio Enterprise Edition System (Full Development System) 7.1 - Windows 2000/XP - Visual Studio 2005 Licensing Patch

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Note This patch was updated in January 2005.

This patch fixes the licensing issues that occur when using the Measurement Studio 7.x .NET class libraries with Visual Studio 2005. Refer to KB 3MSF535B for more information about using Measurement Studio 7.x .NET class libraries with Visual Studio 2005.

You need this patch only if you want to use the Measurement Studio 7.x .NET class libraries with Visual Studio 2005. This patch is not required for customers using only Visual Studio .NET 2003 with Measurement Studio 7.x.

Refer to the readme for more information about installing the patch.

Note to Measurement Studio customers using Visual Studio .NET 2003 along with Visual Studio 2005
Installing this patch will not change the behavior of the DLLs or executables you have built using Visual Studio .NET 2003. But you might get license exceptions when building your Visual Studio .NET 2003 project that contains the Measurement Studio .NET libraries. If you do, please rebuild your project by using the options in the build menu.

Note to Measurement Studio 7.0 Evaluation Version users:
Currently, the Measurement Studio 7.0 evaluation version limits users for running their applications for only 5 minutes at a time. The evaluation expires in 30 days from the date of installation. If you install this patch with the Measurement Studio 7.0 Eval version, you will no longer have the limitation of running the application for 5 minutes at a time. The evaluation will still expire in 30 days from the date of installation.
If you have created an executable or library using the Measurement Studio 7.0 Evaluation version, you will need to re-build it after installing the patch. Otherwise you will get license exceptions if you try and use the executable or library.

Installing Measurement Studio 7.x with Visual Studio 2005:
You need to have Visual Studio .NET 2003 if you want to install the Measurement Studio 7.x NET and C++ libraries. If you do not have Visual Studio 2005, you can still install the .NET libraries, but you need to have the .NET Framework 1.1 Redistributable and .NET 1.1 framework SDK installed. These are free downloads available from the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). If you are trying to use the Measurement Studio 7.x .NET libraries with Visual Studio 2005 but you do not have Visual Studio 2003, you will need to install the above mentioned parts before attempting to install Measurement Studio 7.x. You cannot install the Measurement Studio C++ libraries without Visual Studio 2003.

Visual Studio 2005 Compiler Warning:
The patch updates the NationalInstruments.Common.dll from version 7.1.x to version 8.0.x. Because the older version is still present on the system, Visual Studio 2005 will report warnings about multiple versions of Common similar to the following:

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets : warning MSB3247: Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly. Consider app.config remapping of assembly "NationalInstruments.Common, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4544464cdeaab541" from Version "7.1.0.243" [] to Version "8.0.11.141"
[C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC\NationalInstruments.Common\8.0.11.141__4544464cdeaab541\NationalInstruments.Common.dll] to solve conflict and get rid of warning.

It is safe to ignore this warning. You can remove these warnings by creating an app.config file for your application. VS 2005 will automatically create the app.config file for you if you view the error list and double-click on the warning.

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