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A good one would have been that NI are releasing a "Home/Hobby" edition and service packs for LV 2010 and down.

My understanding is that for true parallelism all of the subVIs should be reentrant. If you have VIs that are really short/fast, you could possibly get away with not making them reentrant to save a little memory. I will throw out the warning to be careful about VIs that need to maintain state (FGVs, Action Engines, whatever you want to call them) and reentrancy.

That would be more mean than funny.

I just thought of what could be the perfect April 1 presser. It combines LabVIEW, augmented reality glasses and VI Analyzer. Any programmer wearing the glasses would see real-time suggestions for improving the code while it is executing with highlighting turned on. Users could write their own analyzer tests to implement features like 'bleach dead code' but the only way to see the results is using the glasses. An optional Source Control add-on would allow for displaying check-in comments and allow the user to highlight code changed by a specific user (identify code that is suspect) Not only would the well equipped LV programmer look friggen' awesome, but it would help NI sell more hardware. Isn't that what LabVIEW is for anyway?

Hey guys, Emilie here - for those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Social Business Manager at NI (i.e. the new "Deirdre") I saw this conversation come up in one of our social monitors last night. I too was bummed to see we didn't have our annual April Fool's press release. I contacted one of my buddies who usually helps come up with the yearly pranks. He said NI decided to sit this year out since the 1st fell on a Sunday. They figured it might get lost in the weekend lull. Hmph. Although I like Aristos' explanation better. Perhaps NI should simply claim the following excuse: "Someone played a prank on us this year and scheduled April Fools on a Sunday."

this is the right thread for me to drop a few lines most of the stuff posted on that "I hate LabVIEW page" is pure bullsh**! Those guys simply should do a Basics I + II course or read a book like "LabVIEW for Newbies" or something like that and most of their "problems" would be gone. If the don't understand how to use LabVIEW and how it works, it's not the failure of the Tool or NI, it's their fault. If I read things like: I'd like to answer: why don't you stupid use the VI Documentation? and why don't you use the text-tool in the BD? --> have you ever heard about the text-tool? You can even change the colour of your text with the color tool, really! --> ROFL! you need a Basics I course man, really, or just use Java, C# or whatever. You are to stupid to understand what dataflow means and what it is good for ... noone, who is serious with LV would really care about the complaints of a no0b which is not willing to learn at least some of the basics. LV is a great tool and a great programming language and I love it (and I earn most of my bucks with it …) but there are also some points I really hate: This yearly major version updates really suck! If someone would ask me I’d say: a major release once in 5 years would be enough, like Microsoft does with Visual Studio. And of course: all VIs written with this major Release should be compatible to all the other minor releases of that major release. The quality of the new releases sucks! I’d really like to se a stable version like 7.1.1 again and I hate it being an unpaid beta-tester in a so-called “release”. What I need is a stable version, I can work with and rely on if things come tough. I don’t need all those new features, where most of them are mainly good for marketing, but almost useless in production. I need reliability, stability and features that improve my daily work and help me getting faster, more precise, etc. For me, the behavior of NI over the last 5 years is like (in the dilbert cartoon posted above): who the fu** needs customers? All we want is the money! And I really don’t like being treated like that! cheers, CB