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Best way to save entire program seperately in LV8?

Greetings.

What is the best way to save the entire application that I am writing so that I can go back a version if I make too many mistakes in Labview 8?  Note that I use FPGA vi's which complicate matters.

To clarify, I am writing quite a large program, it has 900+ vi's and also many type definitions, even an FPGA program and vi's for some other hardware... various libraries, ect.  I would like to be able to save the entire program including everything to... let's say version 1, and then make changes, save to version 2, then I would like to be able to go back to this working version 1.   The problem I am currently having is that if I edit a type definition or anything other than the main vi in Version 2, then the version 1 of my program ceases to work as tt tries to use this same type def I just altered.  If instead i do a build to a new directory for each version, the program tries to make me re-compile my FPGA program. What is the best way to handle saving different versions in Labview 8 so that they are complete and seperate but so that I can still edit them and so that they still access my FPGA vi without having to re-compile it?  Note that my FPGA vi is already working so I'm not changing it with different versions of the program.

Thanks very much.
Richard Cisek
rcisek@utm.utoronto.ca

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