Best way to upgrade from 2011 to 2012

[johnsold]

Roy,

This thread point to an issue which seems to occur rather often. The way the SP1 disks are marked tends to make some people who are not aware of NI's upgrade schedule think they have a newer version than they actually do.

The disks should probably be marked in a large fonts size "LV 2011 SP1" and if necessary, in much smaller font size, "released March 2012."

Lynn

[PhillipBrooks]

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@johnsold wrote:

The disks should probably be marked in a large fonts size "LV 2011 SP1" and if necessary, in much smaller font size, "released March 2012."

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Here here! I want to quickly know WHAT I have, not WHEN it came to be. My mother calls me Phil, not "May1965".

[smercurio_fc]

I remember there had been a discussion on this very point (the labeling of the discs) not too long ago. Don't remember if it was in the LabVIEW forum, Breakpoint, or where. The general consensus was that the labeling by date was very confusing.

[Roy_F]

I'm a bit confused. I took pictures of DVD 1 (2 is the same, just says 2) and the package, neither of which has 2012 on them at all.

I'm clearly missing something, so can someone educate me please.

Thanks,

Roy

[Dennis_Knutson]

The confusion is with the Developer Suite update - not the LabVIEW one.

Quite frankly, since the Developer Suite can contain multiple applications (LabVIEW, CVI, TestStand, etc.), I'm not sure having just a big LabVIEW label on it would be any less confusing.