National Instruments’ (NI) annual NI Week is where the company highlights its latest and greatest software, including new versions of LabVIEW. This year is no different and the centerpiece is LabVIEW, but this year there is a dichotomy. LabVIEW 2017 is a continuation built on LabVIEW 2016, but there is also the new LabVIEW NXG (see “What’s the Difference Between LabVIEW 2017 and LabVIEW NXG?”). Both are actually in the same box but the features and user interfaces differ. (Also, check out “Introducing LabVIEW NXG” for more details of the new approach to LabVIEW.)
Here we take a look at LabVIEW 2017. It is designed to be backward-compatible with LabVIEW. It is possible to migrate most applications from LabVIEW 2017 to LabVIEW NXG, but there is no way to move projects designed in LabVIEW NXG to LabVIEW 2017.