Cool new LabVIEW features - VI Snippets

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I assumed that this years version will be based on LV2010. There are a few important differences between LV2010 and LV2011. I use both in my day job, and some of the features are very useful. You may want to refrain from mentioning too many features from LV2011 to prevent confusion. The biggest "feature" of LV2011 is stability. There was a lot of bug fixes, and hopefully the FRC version has many of these fixes ported over.

As for my most favorite feature:
Separated compiled code from source. This pulls the compiled binary code out of the VI file, and saves it to the user directory. When something like a typedef is changed, all VIs that use it will be recompiled, even if the source of that VI is not actually changed. This causes trouble for source control systems that don't know the difference between the different parts of a VI. With this new option, the VI file no longer changes on recompile only updates, fixing the problem with the source control systems. (It can it can be turned on by default for new VIs in the LabVIEW INI file.) This makes using SVN/GIT/Mercurial/ETC. actually productive.
(PS. SVN 1.7 was just released, bringing huge improvements.)