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NI TestStand™ 4.0 Readme

April 2007

This document contains information about known issues and bugs fixed in NI TestStand 4.0. If you do not activate a TestStand license, TestStand operates in evaluation mode. Refer to the NI TestStand 4.0 Quick Start Guide for information about system requirements, installation instructions, descriptions of the TestStand licenses, and suggestions for learning to use TestStand. Refer to the What's New in TestStand topic in the NI TestStand Help for information about other changes since TestStand 3.5.

Known Issues

Bug Fixes

Additional Information

Known Issues

Installation

Sequence Editor

User Interface (UI) Controls

LabVIEW

Microsoft Visual Studio

Deployment Utility

Miscellaneous

Corrections to Documentation

Installation

• You cannot install TestStand using a network path or a mapped network path. You must install TestStand on a local computer.
• If TestStand fails to uninstall, reinstall TestStand and then uninstall it.
• When you uninstall TestStand 2.0 on a computer where you also installed TestStand 4.0, the TestStand 2.0 uninstaller might incorrectly remove the National Instruments Session Manager 4.0 files. Run the repair utility on NI Session Manager by using the National Instruments Software maintenance utility located in Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel to restore these files.
• Do not install the IVI components from the TestStand 2.0 CD after you install the IVI Compliance Package (ICP) from the NI Device Driver CD included with TestStand 4.0.
  
  If you installed ICP 2.2 or later from the NI Device Driver CD before you installed TestStand 2.0, do not install the IVI components from the TestStand 2.0 CD. Disable the Basic IVI Class Drivers feature within the IVI Engine and Drivers feature during the installation of TestStand 2.0.
  
  If you installed the TestStand 2.0 IVI components after you installed ICP 2.2 or later from the NI Device Driver CD, run the repair utility on the ICP product by using the National Instruments Software maintenance utility located in Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel to correct this incompatibility.
• If you attempt to install TestStand 2.0.1 on a system where you also installed the LabWindows™/CVI™ 8.1 Run-Time Engine (RTE), which TestStand 4.0 installs, the TestStand 2.0.1 installer displays an error while installing the engine. After the installation, TestStand 2.0.1 does not work properly, and if installed, TestStand 4.0 no longer works properly even if you repair the TestStand 4.0 installation. To restore the TestStand 4.0 installation after failing to install TestStand 2.0.1, you must perform a repair operation on the LabWindows/CVI RTE by using the National Instruments Software maintenance utility located in Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel and then use the TestStand Version Selector application to reselect TestStand 4.0 as the active version.
  
  Complete the following steps if you want to install TestStand 2.0.1 on a system where you also installed the LabWindows/CVI 8.1 RTE.
  
  • Use Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel to uninstall the LabWindows/CVI 8.1 RTE. You must uninstall any software that is dependent on the run-time engine before you attempt to uninstall the LabWindows/CVI 8.1 RTE.
  • Confirm that the following files and subdirectory were removed from the Windows\System32 directory: cvirt.dll, cvirte.dll, cvi95vxd.vxd, and \cvirte. If the files still exist, manually remove them. If you cannot delete the \cvirte subdirectory, delete the .dll files first, restart the system, and then try to delete the subdirectory.
  • Install TestStand 2.0.1.
  • You can now reinstall the LabWindows/CVI 8.1 RTE.
    
  
  

Sequence Editor

• By default, the TestStand Sequence Editor caches execution windows to work around an issue where the operating system occasionally leaks objects when you close windows. As a result of this caching, the sequence editor process holds on to Windows USER objects and GDI objects. The Windows Task Manager reports that the sequence editor does not release USER and GDI objects when you close execution windows, which is expected behavior because the sequence editor re-uses the USER and GDI objects in subsequent executions. By default, TestStand caches all execution windows until the number of available USER objects or GDI objects in the TestStand process is less than 1,000.
  
  Typically, you do not need to change this limit, but you can specify the maximum number of windows in the cache by creating a DWORD registry value named SeqeditExeDocCacheSize under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\National Instruments\TestStand\4.0 key. The recommended value is the number of execution windows you typically have open concurrently when running executions in the sequence editor. For example, if you typically run a batch process with 8 test sockets, specify a value of 9, which includes 8 executions that correspond to the test sockets and one controlling execution. You might leak USER objects and GDI objects when the number of concurrent execution windows you create is greater than the number you specify in the registry. The registry entry is an unsigned integer. A value of 0 disables the cache.
  
  When the sequence editor attempts to open a new document and finds that there are fewer than 500 USER objects or GDI objects available, it clears the cache and displays a warning message.
• The TestStand Sequence Editor occasionally reports property object leaks when you use the Close item from the taskbar context menu to close the application and you enabled the Report Object Leaks option in the Debug Options dialog box that you access from the Station Options dialog box.
• The TestStand Sequence Editor can hang when you select Show Differences on a file in the Workspace pane and the difference and merge utilities specified by your source code control provider are not installed.
• The Variables View pane incorrectly highlights an expression property in red when you select multiple steps and the expression contains references to variables in locals, parameters, or file globals.
• Sorting messages by clicking the Time Stamp column in the Output Messages pane does not chronologically order messages posted within the same minute.
• The TestStand Sequence Editor incorrectly prompts you to unlock a file before displaying the Sequence Properties or Sequence File Properties dialog boxes.
• Changing the step selection in the Steps pane of the sequence editor is slow when you select an element of a large array in the Variables pane.
• The LabVIEW Module tab incorrectly displays the Create Custom Data Type dialog box multiple times when you select multiple steps and you click the Create Custom Data Type button. Instead, select only one step before clicking the button.
• Using Watch pane expressions that modify the structure of objects, such as delete subproperties or change size of an array, can prevent the Variables pane from refreshing properly, or can cause the Variables pane to error.
  

User Interface (UI) Controls

• If you click a TestStand UI control hosted in a .NET user control in the designer of Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio might crash. Microsoft has a hotfix for this Visual Studio 2005 limitation. Refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article ID 916495, located at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=916495, for more information.
• The Variables View control can leak a USER object when you use the keyboard to change the value of a Boolean value.
• The Sequence View and ListBar controls can leak memory when you quickly display and dismiss the context menu multiple times.
• If you place a ReportView control on a LabWindows/CVI panel that does not have a title bar, the control hangs when you click it after running a sequence.
• You cannot use the keyboard to navigate to the adapter buttons within the Insertion Palette control for non-.NET applications.
• The CheckBox.Forecolor and CheckBox.BackColor properties do not change the appearance of a control when you set CheckBox.Style to CheckBoxStyle_Button.
  

LabVIEW

• TestStand supports Sequence File Translators built only with LabVIEW 8.2 and later.
• If you uninstall LabVIEW 8.0 from a computer where you also installed LabVIEW 7.1.1, TestStand might return an error when executing a VI that uses a waveform data type. The error states that TestStand fails to find a waveform interface. Run the repair utility on LabVIEW 7.1.1 by using the National Instruments Software maintenance utility located in Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel to correct this issue.
• TestStand does not support calling VIs on remote computers if you save a VI without the block diagram and the version of the VI is different than the active version of LabVIEW 8.0 installed on the computer.
• LabVIEW User Interface executables that do not use the TestStand ActiveX User Interface Controls might hang when launched. The hang occurs when TestStand loads the LabWindows/CVI Run-Time Engine and both LabVIEW and the run-time engine access computer resources at the same time. You can prevent the hang by using a Call Library Function VI to invoke a function in the run-time engine to force LabVIEW to synchronously load the run-time engine into memory before creating the TestStand engine.
• A LabVIEW Run-Time Engine cannot load a top-level VI when the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine finds a subVI with the same name and the subVI was saved with a different version of LabVIEW. This behavior can occur when you try to run a VI that you save in the \API and \Examples directories and the directories contain VIs with the same names as the subVIs that the VI uses and the VIs were saved with a different version of LabVIEW. To avoid this behavior, save VIs in a working directory instead of using the NI directories under TestStand.
  
  Normally, the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine can execute top-level VIs only when you save the VI with the entire VI hierarchy or if the subVIs can be located using the LabVIEW search directories. By default, the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine does not search for required subVIs from the LabVIEW development system, such as files in vi.lib. However, when TestStand loads a LabVIEW Run-Time Engine on a computer where you also installed the LabVIEW development system, TestStand automatically adds directories from the development system to the search paths for the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine. Thus, when TestStand executes a top-level VI saved without its hierarchy, the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine attempts to find subVIs by first searching the directory of the top-level VI and then searching the directories TestStand added. If a subVI saved by a different version of LabVIEW is found first, the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine cannot load the subVI and fails to load the top-level VI.
• TestStand cannot call a LabVIEW 8.2 or earlier Express VI that has a RealMatrix control wired to its connector pane.
• LabVIEW does not call PreTranslateAccelerator for ActiveX controls, which prevents TestStand UI controls in LabVIEW User Interfaces from processing some key strokes, such as using to autocomplete expressions or navigate within controls, using to perform an operation, or using to select multiple items.
• A TestStand 3.5 operator interface built with LabVIEW 7.0 can fail to launch or can display a misleading error message if the LabVIEW 7.0 Run-Time Engine is not installed. TestStand 4.0 does not install the LabVIEW 7.0 Run-Time Engine.
• The Help»Help Topic menu item is disabled in the LabVIEW User Interface after using the command the first time. Use the Ctrl-F1 shortcut key instead.
• LabVIEW applications, such as a TestStand LabVIEW User Interface, can hang when calling a function in a LabVIEW-built DLL from the UI thread. For example, a TestStand LabVIEW User Interface can hang when creating the TestStand Engine and the engine loads a Sequence File Translator DLL built with LabVIEW. To workaround this issue, create the TestStand Engine in a non-UI thread, such as Other 2.
• The Debug Warnings dialog box is not modal and launches behind the LabVIEW Simple UI front panel when you exit the application and the process did not properly release TestStand objects.
  

Microsoft Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2005 for C# might crash on exit when an inactive tab page on an open form in the designer includes certain ActiveX controls, such as when you exit Visual Studio with the main form open in the designer for the example in \UserInterfaces\NI\Full-Featured\CSharp\. The crash is harmless, and you can avoid it by closing the form in the designer before you exit Visual Studio.
• TestStand might cause Visual Studio to generate an access violation when you use TestStand to generate C++ code and then exit Microsoft Visual Studio before you exit TestStand.
• Visual Studio 2005 might crash when you rebuild a solution that uses the TestStand UI controls and you try to view a Microsoft Windows Form in Design view. When you do this, Design view might not show the Windows Form, and you might receive error messages. Refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 912019, located at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912019/en-us?spid=3041, for more information about this issue.
• Visual Studio 2005 displays the error message "Parameter is not valid" when you attempt to select an icon file as the image for a TestStand UI Button control at design time. This error occurs if the icon file contains only a 16-bit color image. You can work around this limitation by setting the icon image programmatically at run-time or by loading an icon file that contains a 256-color image.
• MFC-based applications, such as TestStand User Interfaces, can leak GDI objects on computers running Windows XP SP2 when the applications create and destroy child windows. Refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 319740, located at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319740, for information about how to resolve this known Microsoft bug.
• MFC-based TestStand User Interfaces can crash when using the Workspace Browser dialog box with the Microsoft Team Foundation Server SCC provider.
  

Deployment Utility

• The LabVIEW development system can crash when the Deployment Utility attempts to deploy VIs that call into LabVIEW DLLs. The LabVIEW error message contains the text "Fatal Internal Error: "menuPrivate.cpp". To prevent this problem, you must prevent the LabVIEW development system from unloading the DLLs from memory by creating a new project in LabVIEW, adding the VIs to the project, and opening the VIs from the project.
• Building a deployment fails when you include any VI that uses NI_AALPro.lvlib in its hierarchy and you previously installed LabVIEW 8.2.1 on top of LabVIEW 8.2. The Deployment Utility fails to load broken VIs that the library might use. To fix these broken VI files, run the repair utility on LabVIEW 8.2.1 by using the National Instruments Software maintenance utility located in Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel. You can also uninstall and reinstall LabVIEW 8.2.1.
  

Miscellaneous

• Applications that create and destroy the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) control might leak GDI memory, making the application and the computer unstable. The memory leak occurs when you run the application on Windows XP Service Pack 2 and you installed the Handwriting feature (version 1.0.1038 of the Skchui.dll file) for a Microsoft Office product on the computer. For TestStand, the sequence editor creates new instances of the IE control for each new execution document, and each ReportView User Interface control creates a new instance of the IE control. To prevent this GDI memory leak, uninstall the Handwriting feature for any Microsoft Office product and for any other product that uses this shared feature. Refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 896429, located at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;896429, for more information about this issue.
• The Microsoft IE control that TestStand applications use to display XML reports can leak handles or crash if the control cannot find the style sheet you specify in the Report Options dialog box and the control displays XML report files using the default XML style sheet.
• The Allow All Users Access from Remote Machines checkbox in the Station Options dialog box does not work on some non-English Windows XP SP2 operating systems, such as German Windows XP. The checkbox adds the built-in account name "ANONYMOUS LOGON" to the DCOM access permissions, but the account name "ANONYMOUS LOGON" is incorrect for some non-English operating systems. If you use a non-English Windows XP SP2 or later, refer to the Setting up TestStand as a Server for Remote Sequence Execution section of Chapter 5, Adapters, of the NI TestStand Reference Manual for information about configuring Windows system security to allow users to access and launch the TestStand server remotely.
• XML reports might show a table of measurement data instead of a graph in the following situations:
  
  • The TSGraphControl.ocx ActiveX control located in the \Components\NI\Tools\GraphControl directory is not installed or registered on your computer.
  • Internet Explorer security settings can prevent Web pages from using scripting to create and use an ActiveX control. When you view Web pages located on your computer, Internet Explorer uses the My Computer zone setting on the Security tab of the Internet Options dialog box. By default for Windows XP SP2, the security level for the My Computer zone is set to High, which prevents scripting from running locally. By default, the settings for the My Computer zone are not visible in the Internet Options dialog box of Internet Explorer. Refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 315933, located at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315933, for information about altering the Windows registry to make the My Computer zone visible in the Internet Options dialog box of Internet Explorer. When you have access to the My Computer zone settings in the Internet Options dialog box, enable scripting for the zone or change the My Computer security zone level to Medium.
    
• Under certain circumstances, in-process (DLL) ActiveX automation servers created with Microsoft Visual Basic that are used from a multithreaded client application, such as TestStand, might fail with an access violation. This type of server failure might cause TestStand to hang or crash when freeing resources in the DLL. Out-of-process (EXE) servers do not have this problem.
  
  Refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 186273, located at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186273 (previously published as Article Q186273), for information about how to resolve this known Microsoft bug. If you are using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, you must also enable the Unattended Execution and Retain In Memory project properties.
  
  This workaround forces the DLL to remain in memory after an execution finishes, which requires you to close the sequence editor before you can recreate the DLL. While you are developing, you can disable this code by commenting out the body of Sub Main() (mentioned in Article 186273) so you can recreate your server without exiting TestStand. When your server is ready for release, enable the code to prevent a run-time crash.
• ActiveX EXE servers that display a dialog box and call any TestStand API function that launches a second dialog box while the first dialog box is still active must create the first dialog box in a thread initialized as single-threaded apartment for the TestStand dialog box to function correctly. Otherwise, TestStand might hang.
• When executing sequences using a custom process model, TestStand might return an error when the custom process model appends data to an existing XML report but fails to correctly fix the root tags. Before the custom process model calls Report.Save, add a sequence call to "Remove Root Tags From XML Report" in ReportGen_XML.seq. After the custom process model Report.Save, add a sequence call to "Add Root Tags To XML Report" in ReportGen_XML.seq.
• The execution arrow can appear in the wrong location after interactively executing steps if you previously suspended an execution on a step because of a watch breakpoint, post action breakpoint, or run-time error breakpoint. In addition, a run-time error can occur if you also set the next step to another step in a different step group and the step index of the step you originally suspended at exceeds the number of steps in the new step group. When this error occurs, you must restart TestStand.
• The TestStand File dialog boxes can leak a USER object when used.
• TestStand can crash after unloading a DLL built by an evaluation copy of LabWindows/CVI. The DLL does not properly remove a timer callback that executes after the DLL is unloaded.
• TestStand 4.0 supports XML files, which are larger in size than INI files. TestStand might fail to save an XML file if the file is very large and the computer does not have enough memory. Change the file format to Binary or INI before you attempt to save the file to work around this issue.
• When TestStand unloads a DLL built with LabWindows/CVI 8.1 or earlier and the DLL uses the ActiveX Automation Library, the DLL leaks a handle. For example, the leak occurs each time you select Tools»Sequence File Documentation, which runs a sequence that calls into a LabWindows/CVI DLL. The next release of LabWindows/CVI will correct this issue. You must recompile the DLL to prevent the DLL from leaking the handle.
• McAfee ePolicy can cause TestStand to leak memory when you display XML reports in the sequence editor or a user interface that uses the ReportView control and your computer contains scriptproxy.dll, version 8.0.0.992, located in the C:\Program Files\Network Associates\VirusScan directory. Install a later version of this DLL, such as version 8.0.0.955, to fix this issue.
• Database logging and on-the-fly report generation slowly leak memory when executions use a Sequence Call step to create new threads.
• On-the-fly report generation incorrectly indents step results that follow a Sequence Call step that creates a new thread.
• TestStand reports property object leaks if you call a remote sequence and a run-time error occurred because you passed extra parameters to the sequence. To see this problem, you must enable the Report Object Leaks options in the Debug Options dialog box that you access from the Station Options dialog box.
• TestStand does not call the SequenceFilePreInteractive and SequenceFilePostInteractive callbacks when running a step interactively using a process model. This problem also occurred in previous versions of TestStand.
• TestStand watch expressions do not suspend the execution if the expression returns a reference object and the previous value of the object returned Nothing. Instead, use an expression that returns a Boolean value, such as "Locals.Reference != Nothing".
• TestStand prompts you to reload files when source code control providers, such as MKS Source Integrity, Serena PVCS, and IBM Rational ClearCase, change the timestamp of files when you add the files to source control or check the files in or out of source control. TestStand might display errors for some operations when you reload the files.
• When you check out a project file, TestStand incorrectly attempts to check out files under the project file in the workspace that are not under source code control. TestStand displays an error if you do not exclude these files from the check out operation.
• When you import a waveform while configuring a Configure operation of an IVI FGen step, the dialog box can fail to store the waveform data with the step. You can work around this problem by immediately closing the dialog box after importing the data. In addition, if you browse to a file to configure the step to load the waveform from a file, the filename is not stored with the step. You must edit the filename in the path control to ensure that step saves the changes to the filename setting.
• A configure operation for an IVI FGen step can return an error if the step specifies a waveform that is stored in the step. You can work around this problem by configuring the step to load the waveform from a file.
• The Differ window in the sequence editor and the differ application do not display differences between strings with different preceding and/or trailing quote characters.
• The .NET Adapter generates a run-time error when a step passes an empty array as a parameter. You must pass a non-empty array.
• TestStand suspends an execution in a process model callback instead of suspending in the model entry point sequence when you step out of a client sequence file.
  

Corrections to Documentation

• The NI TestStand 4.0 Quick Start Guide, the NI TestStand Release Notes, and the NI TestStand Reference Manual incorrectly state that TestStand integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 if you install Measurement Studio 7.1 (or later) Enterprise Edition. TestStand can call DLLs and .NET assemblies that you create with Visual Studio .NET 2003, however, you must use Visual Studio 2005 to create and edit code directly from TestStand and to initiate debugging directly from TestStand. The incorrect statements are located on the following document pages:
  
  • NI TestStand 4.0 Quick Start Guide - Page 2
  • NI TestStand Release Notes - Page 2
  • NI TestStand Reference Manual - Page 5-3
    
  
  

Bug Fixes

Sequence Editor

User Interfaces

UI Controls

LabVIEW

LabWindows/CVI

C/C++ DLL Adapter

ActiveX/COM Adapter

.NET Adapter

Deployment Utility

Miscellaneous

The following items are changes from TestStand 3.5 to TestStand 4.0, unless otherwise specified.

Bug ID	Fixed Issue
Sequence Editor
3PKEGNRA	Fixed an issue where the Filter tab of the Find in Files dialog box incorrectly excluded adapters that you configured as hidden.
3709SIG0	Fixed an issue where sending a UIMsg_OpenWindows message for an unsaved file to the sequence editor failed to open a window for the file and the sequence editor displayed an error indicating that the directory could not be found.
3KEET8MT 3LGDNHMF	Fixed an issue where the sequence editor did not update the execution entry points in the Execute menu when you changed the default process model in the Station Options dialog box or when the model file was loaded when previously not found.
3Q9F1FJ6	Fixed an issue where the sequence editor would hang or crash when creating code for a LabVIEW step.
3R0L6HG0	Fixed an issue where the Watch View incorrectly removed carriage-return characters from a watch expression when selecting the expression.
3QIEFC26	Fixed an issue where the sequence editor crashed when you attempted to open a large number of files.
3BK9B0B8	Fixed an issue where the sequence editor did not refresh execution windows to reflect breakpoint changes when you loaded a different workspace.
39693SB8	Fixed an issue where attempting to edit extremely large string values in the sequence editor made the application hang.
3U5F2PNX	Fixed an issue where TestStand prompted you to save a type palette file when closing the sequence editor, even after previously saving the file.
3K3DSTGH	The LabWindows/CVI 8.0 and later Run-Time Engine fixed an issue where the sequence editor leaked memory every time it was deactivated and reactivated.
3RE8S6FK	Fixed an issue where TestStand displayed an error when you tried to save a sequence file after editing a custom data type.
3KL7QKUZ	Fixed an issue where inserting code modules on a sequence file in a workspace incorrectly added temporary VIs to the workspace when steps in the sequence file called Express VIs.
3A8CDMRA	Fixed an issue where the Watch View did not highlight a watch expression in red when the 'On True' watch breakpoint setting suspended the execution.
3ALCSSRA	Fixed an issue where the Watch Expression Settings dialog box discarded changes when you enabled Exist Only in Specified Scope but you did not specify a sequence file.
47F9LFG0	Fixed an issue where the sequence editor and the Report View control leaked memory when displaying XML reports.
User Interfaces
36PAB7G0	Fixed an issue where an open VB.NET and C# TestStand operator interface cancelled a request to shut down Windows 2000.
45FLMBG0	Fixed an issue where TestStand did not prevent you from attempting to run a second TestStand UI application in the LabVIEW development environment while another TestStand UI application was already running.
UI Controls
—	TestStand 3.5 and later fixed an issue where the ApplicationMgr.OpenSequenceFile threw an exception if a type conflict occurred. The method now returns NULL, and TestStand fails to load the file.
3A8AQQLW	Fixed an issue where a call to SequenceFileViewMgr.Refresh removed highlighting for the currently selected steps.
3ERB3NYL	Fixed an issue where TestStand did not trace execution of the LoginLogout callback when you enabled the Trace Into Separate Execution Callbacks station option.
3M7F4U3	Fixed an issue where TestStand failed to process the command-line arguments when ApplicationMgr.LoginOnStart was False.
3O4E4UMT 3H6F9DMT	Fixed an issue where the TestStand UI Controls did not display tip strips when used in a LabVIEW operator interface.
3O4D5BMT	Fixed an issue where the ReportView control did not display an empty report when you called Report.Reset("").
3W4BN7B8	Fixed an issue where TestStand UI Controls on LabWindows/CVI child panels moved off screen when resizing the control using their borders.
3OO153MF	Fixed an issue where the SequenceView UI control did not auto-size the Description column when double-clicking the column divider.
LabVIEW
3QG9N300	Fixed an issue where a small memory leak occurred when TestStand used the LabVIEW 8.0 Run-Time Engine to call a VI that displays and closes its front panel. Use LabVIEW 8.0.1 to prevent this memory leak. Alternatively, you can call the VI without displaying the front panel, or you can configure the LabVIEW Adapter to execute VIs using the LabVIEW 8.0 development system.
3Q9CKF00	Fixed an issue where TestStand could not use LabVIEW 7.1.1 or earlier to call a remote VI that has a TestData control wired to its connector pane. Use LabVIEW 8.x to resolve this issue.
464C8S77	The LabVIEW 8.0 Run-Time Engine and later fixed an issue where TestStand crashed when attempting to load a DLL created in LabVIEW 7.0, the LabVIEW 7.0 Run-Time Engine was not installed, and the DLL incorrectly used a different LabVIEW Run-Time Engine. This issue does not occur if you create the DLL using LabVIEW 8.0 or later.
3M1B99RR	Fixed an issue where an error occurred and closed the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box when adding elements to a 1D cluster array.
3VQCBA5E	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter could not call VIs that wire Generic IO references to the connector pane because the LabVIEW Adapter incorrectly interpreted the terminals as Number (U32).
3IOEG84E	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter incorrectly created a new data type for cluster parameters that contained an array of clusters.
3BK9OBGH 3KRG3RGH	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box did not allow you to specify a value for a required parameter if the step was previously configured to pass a default value when the parameter was not required.
3ZGG3300	Fixed an issue where you could not edit array elements previously specified on the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box after decreasing the default array size on the control in the VI and reloading the VI prototype.
3A9AG8J6	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter parameter mapping feature no longer worked for a step when the step type used a default Express VI as its module and you deleted mapped values applied to the step the last time you configured the step.
3BRCHDRA	Fixed an issue where TestStand would hang while executing a VI that called Exit and the LabVIEW Adapter was running VIs in the LabVIEW development environment.
3B0L59UZ	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter waited until shutdown to clean up temporary wrapper VIs that were created when configuring and running Express VIs.
3BLANJB8	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter incorrectly removed the variable prefix from a property in a parameter expression when configuring an Express VI.
3B791NB8	TestStand 3.5 and later fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box silently discarded parameter values when reconfiguring an Express VI and the parameter names for the VI changed.
3WD79II0	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box incorrectly decremented the enumeration value of a parameter of a VI for digital display controls.
3R2FCL4E	Fixed an issue where TestStand always displayed a type conflict when opening a file that used a data type that contained a LabVIEWClusterArray property and the same data type was already loaded.
3WIC6UQ2	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter could not pass an array of Data Log File references to a VI.
3W64RRCM 3WA6QKPT	Fixed an issue where TestStand would hang or crash when calling a LabVIEW VI that included a control inside a tab and the control was wired to the connector pane.
3ZIBR00	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter did not remap parameter values correctly after changing wired terminals for the VI and reloading the prototype.
3X98OGW3	Fixed an issue where calling a LabVIEW VI using a LabVIEW Run-Time Engine generated an error if the step passed a string value that started with "LVSTR:".
3RFD033S	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter returned an error when using the LabVIEW development system to call VIs that returned a Modular Instruments session.
3V67T88P	Fixed an issue where TestStand would hang or crash when calling a VI in which the label for a wired control or indicator of the VI ended with a space character.
3TUC02W3	Fixed an issue where calling a LabVIEW VI using a LabVIEW 8.0 Run-Time Engine generated an error if the step returned a VISA session.
3S1CPSBK	Fixed an issue where TestStand crashed if you terminated the LabVIEW 8.0 development system while executing a VI.
3KS9OKGH	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box did not clear the description and context help link text when changing an Express VI call to a standard VI call.
3ZHCQT00	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box did not check the data type of parameters that TestStand passed to 2D array indicators.
3JNAHRJ6	Fixed an issue where TestStand crashed when you attempted to create code using the LabVIEW Adapter and the LabVIEW development system was not installed.
3KRFO2GH	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box incorrectly reported an error when you did not specify an expression for the Element1 property of a DynamicData parameter.
3ZBF9800	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box cleared the expressions specified for real or imaginary elements of complex parameters when reloading the prototype for the VI.
3ZCIH077	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter did not filter out HTML tags, such as bold, from error messages.
3OUFPBG0	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box incorrectly displayed "1D Array" for the real and imaginary elements of a 2D (or more) complex array parameter.
3QBCKO77	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter did not release a reference to a remote VI after unloading all modules.
3PLEDUM0	Fixed an issue where calling the Read From Measurement File Express VI returned error code 100.
3QHH3RGH	TestStand 3.5 and later fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box displayed an error when adding elements to any array item within a 2D array of clusters.
2YGG9200	LabVIEW 8.2 and later fixed an issue where ActiveX controls, such as the TestStand UI controls, did not respond to mnemonic keys.
2ZM2FG0	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter leaked memory calling VIs with waveform parameters.
46R964UZ	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter reset the Propagate to Subsequence and Allow Propagation from Caller properties on local variables when assigned a waveform value returned from a VI.
40TE6O3Q	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box cleared parameter expression values of cluster elements after configuring the Express VI.
3BND14GH	Fixed an issue where a LabVIEW operator interface would hang if an execution preloaded a module for a remote VI call when starting the execution.
3BE9KPB8	LabVIEW 7.1.1 and later fixed an issue where LabVIEW lost focus when dismissing a property page for a TestStand UI control.
41JGQ1BU	Fixed an issue where a LabVIEW operator interface executable would hang closing the application if you previously executed a remote VI call.
3ZDCENI0	Fixed an issue were the LabVIEW Adapter reported an error when calling a VI that contained a String control that you changed to a Path control.
3ZIA9VOF	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Specify Module dialog box generated an error when attempting to create a TestStand data type for a parameter that contained an array of LabVIEW I/O controls.
461A6654	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter reported an error when trying to call a VI on a LabVIEW 8.0 Real-Time Module system.
43JJT1M7	Fixed an issue where the LabVIEW Adapter incorrectly passed double-byte Japanese string data between TestStand and VIs when executing VIs using the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine.
41J1LKL3	LabVIEW 8.2.1 fixed an issue where TestStand UI controls became hidden on LabVIEW front panels that you edit if TestStand previously executed a step that called a VI that used a TestStand UI control.
3Q3DRE77	LabVIEW 8.2.1 fixed an issue where TestStand would hang when executing the Undeploy operation of a Deploy Variables step in multiple threads.
LabWindows/CVI
2XIC109Q	Fixed an issue where the LabWindows/CVI ADE required you to select Continue after you attempted to step into a DLL and LabWindows/CVI could not find the specified source file on disk.
3QIC1VRA	Fixed an issue where the LabWindows/CVI Specify Module dialog box initiated editing in the Function Call control when you entered lowercase "step" or "locals" as an argument for a parameter.
3BEB5HRA	Fixed an issue where expression combo boxes in LabWindows/CVI dialog boxes showed a display value in the control instead of the actual value when you used a mnemonic key to give it focus.
3P0LAMGH	Fixed an issue where the LabWindows/CVI Specify Module dialog box read DLL export information and incorrectly interpreted CAObjHandle parameters as integer and incorrectly displayed type names for enum parameters.
C/C++ DLL Adapter
3QIDDO6I	Fixed an issue where the C/C++ DLL Adapter did not update prototypes when you changed how a struct was passed, for example, pass by pointer and pass by value.
3AD8KU6A	Fixed an issue where the C/C++ DLL Adapter could not edit code if the function definition in the source file used macros.
3P8CRURA	Fixed an issue where the C/C++ DLL Adapter sometimes failed to properly insert code using Visual Studio when the function already existed as the last line and you inserted code below it.
3BQ8TAYL	Fixed an issue where the C/C++ DLL Adapter reported an error when generating code with a _bstr_t parameter.
ActiveX/COM Adapter
3T39G9BK	Fixed an issue where the ActiveX/COM Adapter incorrectly reported an error when the interface call returned FALSE and no error object was returned.
.NET Adapter
3QIGDN6I	Fixed an issue where the .NET Adapter incorrectly inserted an Imports statement before Option statements when generating code.
39Q7ESYL	Fixed an issue where stepping into C# code while running multiple executions caused a system-level exception.
3QIENBYL	Fixed an issue where Edit Code with the .NET Adapter did not work if the source code had duplicate TestStand API "using" statements.
41BLCE00	Fixed an issue where the .NET Specify Module dialog box did not allow you to specify default parameters for a constructor.
45PBKPOF	Fixed an issue where the .NET Adapter leaked memory when calling .NET assemblies that returned arrays.
40M9KPUZ	Fixed an issue where the .NET Specify Module dialog box displayed 1D arrays of classes, structs, or enums as 2D arrays.
40LF7LUZ	Fixed an issue where the .NET Adapter generated a system-level exception when calling a module where you specified to use the default value for an in/out parameter.
4709M2YL	Fixed an issue where the .NET Specify Module dialog box displayed duplicate enum values using the name of the first value.
Deployment Utility
2XMAA1G0	Fixed an issue where the Deployment Utility taskbar item was not visible when you opened a modal dialog box.
3RFBRPM0	Fixed an issue where the Deployment Utility did not interpret paths properly for files located in the desktop, program menu, and startup directories on foreign operating systems.
2XQEKRM0	Fixed an issue where running the Deployment Utility crashed when running more than one instance of the application.
3V0D5JI0	Fixed an issue where the Deployment Utility could not deploy a VI Template when you configured the Deployment Utility to lock the block diagram of the VI.
3SS8GQF5	TestStand 3.5 and later fixed an issue where the Deployment Utility logged an error when building a deployment if you used Insert Code Modules on the sequence files in the workspace and the workspace included a sequence file that called an Express VI and another sequence file that called the first file.
3BBGP2MF	Fixed an issue where the Deployment Utility did not prompt to save a modified .tsd file when loading another .tsd file using the MRU list of the Load button.
3QDGFQGH	Fixed an issue where the TestStand Deployment Utility did not properly update the paths to the source files when you copied or moved a .tsd file to a new location and you opened and resaved the .tsd file without performing an analysis of the source files.
3P5FG56I	Fixed an issue where the Deployment Utility did not reload updated TestStand search paths from disk before performing an analysis operation.
3Q2HHRRA	Fixed an issue where the Deployment Utility erroneously logged a warning indicating that an LLB file could not be found when the path in the workspace for the file was an absolute path.
3LC85AIA	Fixed an issue where entering a network path in the Installer Directory control displayed an error while typing.
3N5DKQM0	Fixed an issue where the Deployment Utility did not list the National Instruments directory as a target for deploying files.
3OSGP7G2	Fixed an issue where the Deployment Utility did not allow you to create non-English based installers.
3BBERU6A	TestStand 3.5 and later fixed an issue where the Hide License option in the Deployment Utility did not appear enabled when loading a .tsd file.
40KMM4M7	Fixed an issue where the Deployment Utility failed to warn you when you attempted to include files with dual-byte character names in an English installer.
3RDE1RM0	Fixed an issue where the Deployment Utility did not properly update VI module paths in steps when the called VI contained dual-byte characters.
Miscellaneous
42BCLS00	Fixed an issue where loading protected files generated unexpected type conflicts or unknown type name errors.
47EGAK3S	Fixed an issue where an execution appeared to leak memory if a Sequence Call step executed a sequence in another file and the step was set to unload the module after the step executed. TestStand did not free the file globals for the sequence file that the step called.
373B4HG0	Fixed an issue where TestStand listed the "Containing project directory" as an option in the Edit Search Directories dialog box. The workspace uses the relative path from a file to the project file if valid.
3KEBH1B8	Fixed an issue where the Expression Browser dialog box did not allow you to insert subproperties into a container property.
3DRA52MT	Fixed an issue where the Preconditions dialog box deleted an "AllOf" function if you entered a C++ style comment in an expression element of the precondition.
3O4ESKMT	Fixed an issue where an Expression control incorrectly highlighted the FindFile function as an error when you passed a property that evaluated to an empty string at edit time.
3EAAP8W3	Fixed an issue where the Sequence Properties dialog box incorrectly attempted to validate expressions that apply only when the file type is a model.
3SE2O1LL	Fixed an issue where the Preconditions dialog box prevented you from selecting a step that had a large number of characters in its name.
3F5HE48A	Fixed an issue where TestStand incorrectly displayed the Advanced button when calling DisplayPropertiesDialog on a User object and you passed PropDlgOption_DisableAdvancedButton to the options parameter.
3YFED9AF	Fixed an issue where selecting Loop on Selected Steps executed the steps inside a For Loop only once if the last selected step was the End step.
3CUCA96I	Fixed an issue where TestStand did not update all expressions in a sequence that referenced a step when you changed the name of the step.
39HFRT00	Fixed an issue where TestStand did not allow you to replace an existing file when you attempted to save the file for an earlier version of TestStand.
3BLFB8B8	Fixed an issue where the Workspace Browser dialog box did not open non-sequence files in an external program when you double-clicked the file.
3D6E7RZ8	Fixed an issue where the For Each step did not assign a value to the current element value if the property was an instance of a custom data type.
3UQ1CD8P	Fixed an issue where TestStand suppressed run-time error handling in 'Not Viewable' protected files by not calling PostStepRuntimeError callbacks until the run-time error propagated to a non-protected file.
3YLABION	Fixed an issue where the privileges of a user became enabled when a user who did not have administrator privileges updated their password.
3VU43BQW	Fixed an issue where the expression values on the Text and Buttons Tab of the Message Popup dialog box mirrored value changes you made to the Response String Length control on the Options Tab.
3TFAHFI0	Fixed an issue where the data for the graph control in TestStand XML reports did not appear because the Y axis range was incorrect.
3YKAULUU	Fixed an issue where looping on a Sequence Call step and disabling Record Result of Each Iteration on the step caused the expand.xsl style sheet to incorrectly indent step results in the report.
3VRGAGT3	Fixed an issue where on-the-fly XML reporting failed to update the interim report unless the call stack depth was less than 3.
3R0A3CG0	Fixed an issue where the AddRootTagsToXMLReport function in ModelSupport.dll incorrectly changed CRLF to CRCRLF, which resulted in odd formatting when viewing the XML file.
3U8DHRB8	Fixed an issue where TestStand crashed when you changed the ExecutionViewMgr.StepGroupMode property while running.
3QDBPHB8	Fixed an issue where executing an AutoSchedule step a second time while running a sequence would hang if while running the first time you exited the block without completing the block normally.
3QBE2DRA	Fixed an issue where clicking on some of the secondary dialog boxes that the Database Options dialog box displayed closed the dialog boxes without committing the changes.
3T8D6AB8	Fixed an issue where TestStand crashed when calling Engine.GetInternalOption(InternalOption_ApplicationManager).
3P79DDB8	Fixed an issue where TestStand crashed when you compared two context property values in an expression.
3K7DD4MF	Fixed an issue where the CommentOf expression function returned an empty string when called on SequenceFile objects.
3QIDL2RA	Fixed an issue where the Database Options dialog box discarded edits to a schema comment if you tabbed off the control.
4661QKIZ	Fixed an issue where a Property Loader step failed when importing from a file that contained import data for a large array or container property.
421D7CYL	Fixed an issue where TestStand reported property object leaks after a Sequence Call to a remote computer failed to access the system.
425APA00	Fixed an issue where Message Popup steps returned an error when executed on a remote computer that you call using a Sequence Call step.
467AHKYL	Fixed an issue where the array data was incorrectly interpreted when displayed in the graph of an XML report on a system configured to use commas as decimal points.
43JFG3B8	Fixed an issue where a Do While step incorrectly evaluated its condition for its first loop if you previously executed the loop and you branched out of the loop to restart the loop again.
44IDMK7K	Fixed an issue where the TestStand Database Viewer displayed an empty error message when attempting to open an invalid data link.
46PF9MUU	Fixed an issue where XML reports that used the horizontal stylesheet did not display if a Multiple Numeric Limit Test step returned an empty array with no measurements.
41E86U77	Fixed an issue where the Property Loader incorrectly created database columns using the varchar data type instead of a numeric data type.
41HCK7G0	Fixed an issue where the ApplicationMgr generated an error when returning from a UIMessageEvent event for a custom UIMessage.
447GTM7	Fixed an issue where an error occurred in process models when attempting to generate a report if the sequence file pathname contained specific Japanese characters and TestStand was generating the report in the same directory as the sequence file.
35BG11B8	Fixed an issue where TestStand supported only 256 colors for icons. TestStand now supports 16-, 24-, and 32-bit icons.
3Z6AH8CN	Fixed an issue where the IVI-C Switch step used a semicolon instead of a comma as a delimiter for Init options when trying to simulate the instrument, which resulted in the step using the real instrument when present.
3V9G93IF	The LabVIEW 8.0 Run-Time Engine fixed an issue where Visual Studio displayed the following prompt: "Managed Debugging Assistant 'LoaderLock' detected a problem in SeqEdit.vshost.exe" when the sequence editor loaded the LabVIEW 7.1 Run-Time Engine while debugging TestStand with Visual Studio and you enabled Managed Debugging Assistant on the Exception dialog box in Visual Studio.
47L5HNM	Fixed the documentation for the Replace expression function, which incorrectly stated that the function returned the modified string.
—	TestStand 3.1 and later fixed an issue from TestStand 2.0.x where the DLL Flexible Prototype Adapter incorrectly handled calls to AddRef() and Release() on references in structure parameters or arrays of structure parameters when the value of a reference that was passed to the code module was different than the value the code module returned. If you attempt to run the TestStand 2.0.x example located in \Examples\StructPassing\C or any code module based on this example in TestStand 3.1 and later without properly handling references, TestStand might crash. The TestStand 2.0.x version of this example failed to properly call AddRef() and Release() on references in structure parameters that the code module used. The C/C++ DLL Adapter in TestStand 3.1 and later resolves this issue, and the TestStand 3.1 and later examples properly demonstrate how to use references within structure parameters.
—	TestStand 3.0 and later fixed an issue where for steps run in a root interactive execution, the order of execution for the Pre and Post Interactive callbacks in TestStand 2.0 was Setup Step Group, Pre Interactive Callbacks, Selected Steps, Post Interactive Callbacks, and Cleanup Step Group. In TestStand 3.0 and later, the order of execution is Pre Interactive Callbacks, Setup Step Group, Selected Steps, Cleanup Step Group, and Post Interactive Callbacks.
—	TestStand 3.5 and later fixed an issue where the Edit String Value Test dialog box persisted as "\r\n" in the Expected String Value control. TestStand now persists "\n" instead.
—	TestStand 3.1 and later fixed an issue where the Microsoft Internet Explorer ActiveX control TestStand used to display HTML and XML reports in the sequence editor report tab and the Custom UI Report did not always release its internally allocated memory each time the Internet Explorer control updated the report. If you update the control continuously over an extended period of time, the TestStand process memory use increases. TestStand 3.0 used the control in such a way that the failure to release memory occurred more often. TestStand 3.1 and later contain workarounds that limit the amount of memory the control fails to release. When you use on-the-fly reports, TestStand uses the Internet Explorer control only when the control is visible.
320FDRMT	TestStand 3.1 and later fixed an issue introduced in TestStand 3.0 where if you opened a TestStand 2.x sequence file that contained a custom step type in TestStand 3.0, TestStand 3.0 incorrectly turned off the Instance Default Flag, PropFlags_SharedAtRunTime, for the Step.TS property. A side effect of this change is that in TestStand 3.0, instances of this type ignore run time changes to built-in step properties and code module settings. For example, if a step altered the precondition of another step at run time, the precondition change was ignored. TestStand 3.1 and later fix this issue by reverting the flag back to its proper state when loading a TestStand 3.0 file. TestStand does not mark the step type as modified. To prevent the fixed version of a step type in TestStand from being used in or accidentally propagating back to earlier TestStand sequence files, enable the Set Earliest TestStand Version that can Use this Type setting on the Version tab of the Step Type Properties dialog box and set the earliest version to the current version of TestStand.
—	NI-VISA 3.1 or later and NI-DAQmx 7.2 or later fixed an issue where the NI-PAL Service Manager (nipalsm.exe) generated an error each time you restarted the system.

Additional Information

• For additional information about TestStand, refer to the support section of the National Instruments Web site at http://www.ni.com/support/teststandsupp, which also includes an email-based TestStand technical discussion forum.
  

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