Are VI's generated under Vista compatible with XP?

[AndyVessey]

I have just purchased a new laptop with Vista installed.

I would like to write some VI's on the Vista laptop using LV8.6 and then run the VI's on our production machines which are also running LV8.6 but these machine are running under XP. Two questions:

Q1. Is the code generated to form a VI identical be it generated under Vista or XP?

Q2. Is it OK to develop VI's under Vista for XP machines (both running the same version of LabVIEW)

Many Regards

Andy

[Christian Mergl]

Hey,

As long as you dont use any VISTA specific DLL calls it should work without problems. E.g. the examples which where shipped with LabVIEW are created in different Windows OS, and they also work on different Windows OS's.

Christian

[AndyVessey]

Thanks for the speedy reply.

Andy

[falkpl]

From my experience I havent had any issue developing in vista and porting to XP.  I have done this in 7.1, 8.0, 8.21, 8.5 and 8.51.  I have written many applications (at least 10 full apps) on my Vista machine with no major issues.  On youe builds you can right click on the properties and select run in XP compatability mode, I dont know what compatability issues are resolved using this.  The bigest issue I have found is that several folder structures have changed from XP to Vista, so be a little careful with absolute paths.