upgrading to labview 8.5

[unclebump]

Unclebump finally has version 8.5 on order. Where should I start looking for hints on moving forward from a labview 7.0 world?? I'll be getting the developer suite, industrial monitoring, realtime, fpga, data management, statechart, sound and vibration, image acquisition. Should I install on top of 7.0 or unintstall it??

[Ben]

Hi Uncle,

Can't give a complete check list and I suspect you already know that LV 8.5 will reduce the LV 7.0 add-ons to smoke. THe most complicated part of the upgrade is going to be DSC transition from tags and the tag-engine to shared variables. Keep in mind that Shared Variables can be read using datasockets so if you have any "read tags" in a loop controlled by Tags names.

Those are the big ones that bit me in my LV 6.1 to LV 8.2 DSC upgrade.

Ben

[unclebump]

Hello Ben,

How do you handle what I'll call DSC events in new versions?? Executing event frames based on tag value changes. I used hidden indicators and value(signaling) property nodes in version 7. These were running in a parallel while loops.

[Ben]

You register events.

Ben

[Nitin_T]

Hi unclebump,

If you want to use LabVIEW 7.0 along with LabVIEW 8.5, do go ahead and install the software directly. You can have both LV 7.0 and 8.5 on the same machine. If you don't want to use LabVIEW 7.1, then do uninstall it and then install LV 8.5

The following document talks about the upgrade issues that generally come up.