Chapter 1 Introduction to Measurement Studio
Measurement Studio User Manual 1-6 ni.com

Installing the Current Version of Measurement Studio over Previous

Versions of Measurement Studio

Note You can have only one version of Measurement Studio installed on a system for each
version of Visual Studio or the .NET Framework installed on the system. For example,
you can have Measurement Studio 8.1.2 for Visual Studio 2005 installed on the
same system as Measurement Studio 8.5 for Visual Studio 2008, but you cannot have
Measurement Studio 8.1.2 for Visual Studio 2005 installed on the same system as
Measurement Studio 8.5 for Visual Studio 2005.
If you install a newer version of Measurement Studio on a machine that has
a prior version of Measurement Studio installed, the newer version installer
replaces the prior version functionality, including class libraries. However,
the prior version assemblies remain in the global assembly cache (GAC);
therefore, applications that reference the prior version continue to use the
prior version .NET assemblies.
Note This does not apply to NationalInstruments.Common.dll.
NationalInstruments.Common.dll uses a publisher policy file to redirect
applications to always use the newest version of NationalInstruments.Common.dll
installed on the system, for each version of the .NET Framework.
NationalInstruments.Common.dll is backward-compatible.
Measurement Studio Package Comparison Chart
The following table lists the features included in the Standard,
Professional, and Enterprise packages of Measurement Studio. Refer to
ni.com/mstudio for more information about the functionality and
features included with each Measurement Studio package, including Visual
C++ functionality.