Missing TCP/IP Socket from VISA Resource Property

My Labview "VISA Resource Property" is not showing "TCP/IP Socket". According to this website, it should:
http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361D-01/lvvisaprop/visa_object/
I/O Session
FireWire Instr
GPIB BoardInterface
GPIB Instr
Instr
PXI Backplane
PXI Instr
PXI MemAcc
Serial Instr
TCP/IP Instr
TCP/IP Socket RIGHT HERE
USB Instr
USB Raw
VXI Servant
VXI/GPIB-VXI Backplane
VXI/GPIB-VXI MBD Instr
VXI/GPIB-VXI/VME MemAcc
VXI/GPIB-VXI/VME RBD Instr
I'm using Labview 8.6.1 along with MAX 4.6.x I'm able to see & utilize VISA TCP/IP Socket in MAX so I'm wondering how come I don't see it in Labview? Is there a way to enable this?

nevermind, I found a workaround. I just type cast "TCP/IP Socket" from a "instr" VISA control

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