"Restart LabVIEW" menu item

[oenk]

How about a "Restart LabVIEW" menu item?

When developing C# add-ons for LabVIEW I sometimes need to restart LabVIEW just to get the current loaded .NET assembly out of the LabVIEW AppDomain. It would be nice if there would be a "Restart LabVIEW" menu item so I don't have to exit and restart manually.

Cheers,

Christian

[gsussman]

To respond to AQ about the need to restart, I do find that periodically I need to S/D and restart LV.

 Granted that may only be after a 48 hours or so of development on a large project (Windows,RT, & FPGA), but it does seem to free up memory and system resources that simply closing down all of the open projects does not.

I really don't think that it is a big enough issue to warrant spending R&D resources on. Just my $0.02

[TimBotsM]

*I know a bit late bit still valid*

Another reason for a restart button is to unload (deleted) classes in memory.

If you delete a class it's not unloaded but moved to the "Dependencies\Items in Memory" folder. However since it's lost all connections to the project it always results in a broken run button.

Also if you dynamically load plugins (HAL) these won't be unloaded until you restart LabVIEW.

[Darren]

National Instruments will not be implementing this idea. As a workaround, you can write your own tool to restart LabVIEW. You can add items to the pull-down menus in LabVIEW by following the procedure listed here. In this tool, you will use the Restart Method.