What's your favorite LV2013 feature?

[josborne]

So LabVIEW 2013 is out!  

Exciting! .... or not?

I have to admit that  I am underwhelmed by the new features.  Maybe I need some convincing because I didn't make it to NIWeek this year to hear all the marketing hooplah.  

So convince me!  What is your favorite new feature?  Right now, I don't see a reason to upgrade (EDIT: from LV2012).

[Phil_]

I agree on the underwhelmed front. Maybe we were spoiled with new toys last year?

The comments/bookmark/# thing looks like it might be quite handy as a todo list, rather than having lots of scaps of paper floating around my desk.

I was hoping for some updates and improvements to the vision library. Maybe next year.

[Intaris]

Don't underestimate the new event functionality.

My favourite feature may be one which we can't judge yet.  Stability.  NI have been promising to make the IDE more stable and bug-free so time will tell if this has really been achieved or not.

Shane.

[Wart]

I'm trying to make the jump from 2011 to 2013, so at least I'm picking up all the 2012 features as well..

I feel like executables load a little faster, but I haven't done any benchmarking.  My hunch is something like 15% quicker (maybe 10-25%?) for a 10.5 meg executable.

Compiling code or building an installer seems to use CPU cycles of explorer.exe more than LabVIEW.exe.  I can't swear it wasn't that way in 2011.  It still doesn't seem to ever use more than 1 core.

I would have thought both of the above issues were hard drive bound anyway, so they may both be in my mind.  I think a lot of compiler improvements were planned for this release, but most of my code isn't CPU bound anyway.

I use the winSCP .NET interface, which now appears to be broken in 2013 due to the switch to CLR 4.  Maybe a post about this to follow. :'(

[ohiofudu]

My favorite = Documentation and bookmark

[josborne]

Yeah, I like the bookmark thing.  Probably the handiest new feature.  Although, I have been doing this for many years by simpling creating my own floating label that begins with "DO THIS".  And then I simply search the top-level VI for "DO THIS" ... and instantly I get a list of remaining things to do.

[Darren]

One extra benefit of the bookmarks feature in LabVIEW 2013 is that the Bookmark Manager will display bookmarks for all VIs in your project, including those that are not loaded into memory. This helps with apps that have dynamically called VIs, and as such, may not have a single top level VI that loads everything into memory.