NXT Custom Block Development with LabVIEW 8.2.1?

I'm trying to develop a custom NXT block using
LabVIEW 8.2.1. Is this possible? I am having trouble importing the finished block into
the Mindstorm environment. My block is always greyed out in the import
list. My block seems to compile just fine. In fact, if I create a new
example block from a template and try to import that without
modifications, I get the same behavoir.
Any ideas on how I can debug this?
P.S. Hopefully this actually goes to the LabVIEW Friends of LEGO group ; )

Eagles Coach is right on the money here. Because the MINDSTORMS environment is built on LabVIEW 7.1, that's the only version you can use to create custom blocks for the environment. LabVIEW 8.0 and 8.2 are useful if you plan to do all your programming in LabVIEW itself, but won't help you create blocks for MINDSTORMS.
You could use the "Save for Previous" feature of LabVIEW to backport your code to 7.1, but that would require you to have both LV 8.0 and LV 7.1.
James Blair
NI R&D

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