VI High 17: LabVIEW 2011 New Feature - How to Use the Application Builder Clean Command

Continuing on our exploration of new features in LabVIEW 2011, we’re now going to look at the new “Clean” command in the Build Specification menu.

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Experience Level: Basic

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“There are a few new features pertaining to building applications in LabVIEW 2011.

One of them is the Clean feature in the Build Specifications menu. So going back now to this Relative Path, I can see that this is my destination directory for the build. If I build it, I can go look at it right here. This is our Vista test machine, so don’t judge. I can go to build, and here’s my executable, my INI file, the data, etc.

Now let’s say that I look at this and realize that something’s wrong. I run this or I want to change something. Well, I could go and clean all these out, delete them all myself. This is a relatively simple application, so this can be done, but for more complex applications, this could be a pain. If I go back to the relative path, right-click on it, and go to Clean, as you can see, that’s all gone. Then I can go back into my Build Specifications menu and reconfigure my edited options.’”

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