LV 8.5 just released - the list of most important features

[Tomi_Maila]

It seems LabVIEW 8.5 has just been released. I went trough the upgrade notes and listed the most important new features for LabVIEW power users in my ExpressionFlow blog. Read the blog post...

Tomi

[Marc_A]

I just got the email about 8.5 and took a look at the features that were added. I'm really surprised there isn't more discussion about it. These new features look great. Conditional for loops, auto-populating folders (woohoo! I've been asking for this since the first time I made a project), this new in place element structure (looks interesting), the new cross-linking resolution tools.

Maybe I'm becoming too much of a LabVIEW nerd, but I got really excited reading about this stuff. It's always good to see a software company as big as NI listening so intently to its users and giving them a release like this with a lot of incredibly useful features that have been requested.

I'm downloading it overnight (slow connection at work), I'll test it out tomorrow. I can't wait to add the synchronizing folders to all my projects.

[Tomi_Maila]

I'm actually pretty excited myself as well, especially about recursion and the new memory optimization functions. Recursion is something I've been not only wanting but needing. There are certain problems that cannot be solved without recursion still keeping the modularity of the program.

Tomi

[Ben]

The in-place structure and the State Chart tool are going to become part of my life.

We have been using the State Diagram Editor in most of our project, but the new State Chart seems ( I only did a very limited Beta test) like a step up.

Ben