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LabWindows™/CVI 8.5.1 Upgrade for SSP Customers

An Exclusive Release for SSP Customers

NI LabWindows/CVI 8.5.1 represents more than 1,000 hours of engineering time, and addresses various bugs in LabWindows/CVI 8.5. This scheduled maintenance upgrade is available only to members of the NI Standard Service and Volume License programs.

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Important Note: If you do install LabWindows/CVI 8.5.1 without an SSP membership, the new version will not work and you will need to reinstall LabWindows/CVI 8.5.

Download LabWindows/CVI 8.5.1

Please select one of the following download links based on your location.

If you are a customer in United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Western Europe, and Japan:

Download LabWindows/CVI 8.5.1 here.

If you are a customer in any other country:

Download LabWindows/CVI 8.5.1 here.

Compatible Hardware Drivers

Drivers
  • NI-488.2 2.5.2
  • NI-845x 1.1.1
  • NI-CAN 2.5.1
  • NI-DAQmx 8.7
  • NI-DAQmx Base 3.1
  • NI-DAQ (Traditional) 7.4.41
  • NI-DCPower 1.2.1
  • NI-DMM 2.7.2
  • NI-DNET 1.6.1
  • NI-FGEN 2.5.1
  • NI-FieldPoint 6.0.1
  • NI-HSDIO 1.5.3
  • NI-ICP 3.2.0
  • NI-IMAQ 3.8
  • NI-Motion 7.6
  • NI-RFSA 2.0.6
  • NI-RFSG 1.3.1
  • NI-SCOPE 3.4
  • NI-Serial 3.3
  • NI-SWITCH 3.7
  • NI-VISA 4.3

1 Does not support 64-bit operating systems.

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Bug Fixes

LabWindows/CVI 8.5.1 includes more than 35 bug fixes within the LabWindows/CVI product family including fixes for the following known issues:

  • Incorrect plotting behavior when other controls overlap the strip chart's graph area
  • Control dimming is too restrictive
  • _FUNCTION_ macro behavior changed between LabWindows/CVI 8.1 and LabWindows/CVI 8.5
  • Font sizes inside a table cell do not grow proportionally to the size of the cell
  • CNVWrite is slower in LabWindows/CVI 8.5 than in version 8.1.1
  • Creation of a custom control that uses a control in a tab panel as a template can cause LabWindows/CVI to shutdown
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Readme

Refer to the following documentation for system requirements, installation information, and known issues in the LabWindows/CVI 8.5 Readme

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Additional Documentation

The mark LabWindows is used under a license from Microsoft Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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