[WizenedEE]

I don't really get it. Building the code takes longer than deploying does, and deploying is much more useful in terms of debugging.

Several other things:

I'd assume (or at least hope) that all teams know how to do this or something equivalent already, or else they wouldn't be able to compete.

There's no reason to hard-wire the C-RIO to do this, unless you want the downloading time of two or three seconds to be improved.

Doesn't the "run as startup" option in labview do the same thing?

Windows Explorer is also an ftp server... just go to the address bar and type in "ftp://10.xx.yy.2"

I never thought about making a batch file though -- that sounds like a great idea.