Source Control usage in labview 2025 Version

[YaminiPothana]

Hi, I'm using Community version of LabVIEW 2025 Q1, and I'm unable to get the source Control provided name in the drop down for integrating, Please help me in knowing if the Community version has this access or restricted, I knew it can be done with third party external sources, but I want to the build options for the community edition is available or not. Please respond to this asap.

[UliB · Accepted solution]

Which Source Control Provider do you want to use?

AFAIK not all Source Control Software implemented this kind of access. I think Perforce and Visual Source Safe did, but SVN and GIT do not.

[YaminiPothana]

Thanks for responding, I want to connect to Azure Devops?

[Bob_Schor]

As I recall, the Source Control options have remained the same (very limited) choices for maybe the last 15 years.  In particular, neither SVN (as in TortoiseSVN) nor GIT have native LabVIEW support.  However, you might be able to find some "Tools" in the JKI Toolkit that can interface with SVN and GIT (I haven't used them, myself, although I've been using SVN since early in my LabVIEW experience).

Bob Schor

[YaminiPothana]

The option of source control is showing up as none in drop down, also I tried to restart the LabVIEW still I didn't get the option.

[GerdW]

Hi Yamini,

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@YaminiPothana wrote:

The option of source control is showing up as none in drop down, also I tried to restart the LabVIEW still I didn't get the option.

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Because you don't have a supported provider available...

(You still can use SVN or GIT, but not with tools provided by NI. I also see "None" in that options dialog, but use SVN all the time.)

[UliB]

Your Source Control Program of your choice needs to implement Microsoft Source Code Control Interface.

See: 

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/labview/page/selecting-a-source-control-provider.html?srsltid=A... 

https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/supplemental/06/software-configuration-management-and-la... 

If there is no entry in the dropdown, then the installed source control provider does not implement MSCCI. For example SVN and GIT do not implement this.

[Bob_Schor]

About 5 years ago, Viewpoint released a Tortoise SVN toolkit that can be found on the LabVIEW Tools Network, reachable by VIPM, which you should have installed with LabVIEW.  I've never used it, preferring to simply run TortoiseSVN from Windows File Explorer.

Bob Schor