Labview 7 Express versus Labview

[CoreyNE]

I've been asked to help someone with a data acquisition project.  Unfortunately, they know less about Labview and related software than I do.  They say they have "Labview 7 Express".  Is this an old version of signal express?  I currently use Labview 8.2/8.5, so how would this Labview 7 Express compare to it in terms of functionality?  Is what they have too outdated to bother with?

Thanks.

[RTSLVU]

I am just guessing here but LV 7 was where the "Express VI's"made their first aperence. That's why they named it LV & Express. As far as LV7 being too old? Hell we have a huge code base of Labview 5.11 still running ATE stations everyday and the manufacturing test group is still developing with it.

[tst]

7.0 is a great version (I use it daily), but there are some differences in functionality (7 has no project environment, no LVOOP, etc.) and there are comparison matrices to show you the new features in each version.

The biggest hurdle would be that even if the code is compatible, you can't save code from 8.2\8.5 to 7.0. You would have to get 8.0 and 7.1 and do a save for previous in each of those versions. Under those circumstances it might be easier to just make sure you both have the same version.

[CoreyNE]

Thanks for the feedback; it's cleared things up for me.   I think I have a feel for how to go forward with this.