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What's New in NI LabWindows™/CVI 8.5?

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Building on a decade of multithreading expertise and more than 20 years of providing developers with the flexibility of ANSI C, NI LabWindows/CVI 8.5 continues to deliver flexible tools for creating multithreaded applications optimized to take advantage of multicore processors, new customizable environment features that reduce development time, and communication libraries that help you choose the best tool for the job. Learn about these features and more below.

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Key User-Requested Features of LabWindows/CVI 8.5

Reliable Multicore Performance and Debugging

LabWindows/CVI gives you maximum flexibility to create multithreaded applications optimized for multicore processors. You can now achieve increased performance on multicore systems with full control over thread management, built-in multithreaded libraries and drivers, thread-safe analysis functions, and advanced debugging with the NI Real-Time Execution Trace Toolkit 2.0.

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User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Library

The LabWindows/CVI UDP support library provides an API for efficient data transfer using the unicast, broadcast, and multicast capabilities of the Universal Datagram Protocol (UDP).

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New Streamlined Environment in LabWindows/CVI 8.5

Tabbed Workspace

Eliminate windows clutter by immediately accessing source files and function panels with the streamlined tabbed workspace.

Collapsible Source Code Regions

Improve source code readability and focus on particular areas of interest in your code by hiding implementation details in collapsible source code regions.

Code Editing while Debugging

Shorten the time between identifying a bug and implementing a fix by editing source files while debugging.

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More New Features

User Interface Design Features

  • Autoscaling, scrolling, and legends on strip charts
  • Color ramps on knobs and slides
  • Label controls with rotated text
  • Enhanced graph zooming
  • 64-bit integer support on user interfaces

Additional Features

  • Autobackup and recover
  • 2.5X performance improvement in network variables
  • Color ramps on knobs and slides
  • Hashtable API
  • Support for .NET delegates and events
  • More advanced analysis
  • Getting started window

The mark LabWindows is used under a license from Microsoft Corporation.