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Launch proper CVI version upon double clicking a CWS (or PRJ)

This would make it a bit easier to edit an old project without the issue of upgraded UIRs because it might get loaded by the wrong CVI version and one edits and accidentally saves it before noticing.

 

Visual Studio installs a helper EXE which launches the right Studio for any SLN.

 

If MS didn't patent this Smiley Wink, it would be a nice feature for CVI (and LabView?), too.

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LuisG
NI Employee (retired)
Status changed to: Under Consideration
 
JKneale
Member

If there is no easy way to detect the version that the project is compiled in, then it would be nice to have a the CVI version number show in the popup menu when you right-click on a project in Windows Explorer, and select Open With...

 

At the present time the two versions that I've got loaded both just say "abwindows CVI Development Environment".  I have to remember which is which