DAQmx hangs up when attempting to create task

Question

I am developing a .NET application with visual studio in C# using a USB-6008 device. Previously (more than a month ago), I had everything working with the NI-DAQmx 9.7.0 Core driver along with the libraries included with the full NI-DAQmx installation. The included libraries at the time of correct operation were NationalInstruments.Common.dll, NationalInstruments.Common.Native.dll, and NationalInstruments.DAQmx.dll.
A few days ago, I fired up some of the code that was previously fine (DAQmx 9.7.0 Core driver installed, device connected and visible in windows device manager) and the program hung up on creating a task. I installed the NI-DAQmx 9.8.0 f3 Core driver which resulted in the same issue. Then I installed the full NI-DAQmx 9.8.0 f3 Full driver, added the new .net libraries, and I am still having the same issue.
So, here is the task issue in detail...
The code I am running:
Console.WriteLine("Starting");
try
Task myTask = new Task();
catch (DaqException exception)
MessageBox.Show("Exception: " + exception.Message);
throw;
Console.WriteLine("Done");
When I run the above code, I get the console output of "Starting", and then nothing happens for a while. Visual Studio just sits there running until my firewall pops up with NI software trying to access the internet. Sometimes the debug output will state that "A first chance exception of type 'NationalInstruments.DAQmx.DaqException' occurred in NationalInstruments.DAQmx.dll", but nothing is coming out of the exception in code.
Any ideas what is going on here?
Thank you,
Matt

Answer 1

Update: After re-imaging my OS, installing the DAQmx 9.8.0 Core driver only, and using the libraries included in the DAQmx 9.8.0 full driver, the visual studio debugger now moves to the "throw" portion of the catch statement, and this messagebox pops up: