installation LV8.6 and 2010

[Marco Wolf]

Hi,
is it possible to install and use LV8.6 und LV2010 on the same workstation
without using different accounts?

Thanks.

[Omar_II]

I have

• LabVIEW 7.1
• LabVIEW 8.2
• LabVIEW 8.5
• LabVIEW 8.6
• LabVIEW 2009
• LabVIEW 2010

all loaded and running on the same PC without any problems.

I would suggest loading the 8.6 before the 2010.

[Coq_Rouge]

My list is not as impressive as the list from Omar. You can install and even in some cases run several Labview versions at the same time. But be very careful not to mix code. You can not mix code between versions. Labview 2010 will be downward compatible with 8.6. But not the other way. It can be mess to clean up in. At least irritating. In labview 2010 you save your code for 8.6. But it is awkward to do this operation.   

[NIquist]

Be careful. The version of LabVIEW that opens when you double-click a VI will be the last one that you worked with.  If you don't notice which version starts up and save an old VI.  It will update your file to the new version without ANY warning.

[Omar_II]

Coq Rouge is correct, I have more than once "up" converted a VI by mistake.

There is an ini file setting to display the LabVIEW version in the title bar of the VI to help keep thing stright

titlebarRevision=True

Plus I never double click on a VI file to open it but will right click and use the "open with" or set up the "send to" to select which version to use.

Also the file directory structure and project name referances the LabVIEW version the VI are writen in also.

But even with all that I still mess up.

So take warning.

[NIquist]

Thanks for the ini tip Omar.  I can't even use Open with...  Only the last version I had open is in the list.

[MikeS81 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

just something to add. It depends on your OS. If you use Windows 7, then you can't install the impressive list Omar posted.

Mike

[Marco Wolf]

thank you all!

I'll give it a try.