Driver Compatibility

[sethTestEngineer]

Would a driver for LabVIEW 8.2.1 be compatible with LabVIEW 2010? 

[RTSLVU]

I would think so...

Honestly most LabVIEW "drivers" are just premade set of VIs using the instruments SCPI commands saving you a few hours of "grunt work".

The drivers will be recompiled into the version you are using. 

If you get the message about the VI being too old then post them on the LabVIEW Version Conversion Board and someone will probably be able to convert them to a new enough version for you to open them.

[rolfk]

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@sethTestEngineer wrote:

Would a driver for LabVIEW 8.2.1 be compatible with LabVIEW 2010? 

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A driver can be many things. Being a bit more specific would help tremendously.

"Instrument" drivers are typically distributed as VI source code and as such have no real limitations in being opened by newer LabVIEW versions, provided that you have the according "Device" drivers installed. 

"Device" drivers are typically a set of VIs that access specific shared libraries (DLLs) that access the real hardware. Here things can get more tricky as there might be dependencies that are not easily resolved by opening the VIs in a newer LabVIEW version.