Version of labview for VI, check VI version?

[craige]

I often find myself switching between versions of labVIEW and will "upgrade" my Vi to a later version by mistake. This can become problematic when developing in different versions of LabVIEW (or developing with Teams which use varying version of LabVIEW). Is there a way to check the LabVIEW version the VI was developed in before opening a VI? (there's probably a byte set that describes this but i assume its IP)

Backup Plan: I could write a small program to check the VI version using VI server but so far my feeble attempts have resulted in errors. (Good news: LabVIEW version is contained in the error cluster but parsing the version number from the error cluster seems like a dirty way to do it)

Thanks,

Craig

[smercurio_fc]

This has come up many times over the years. Do a search and you'll find several discussion on this, including limitations due to the file structure changing over the various versions. The most recent one was about a month ago, I think.

[craige]

I see what you mean. How foolish of me. To my defense I searched a few terms before I posted.  When I did searched for 'get VI Version' and found a post that was almost identical to mine.

Here's the solution!

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/0C72D335AA87DD6486256FC40069C17F?OpenDocument