Quick drop demonstration video

Hi,
Whenever I've attended a LabVIEW event it always seems that the inevitable "wait...how did you do that?" question comes from the audience when an instructor is demonstrating quickdrop.
Does anybody know if there are any videos online that we could reference when attempting to learn quick drop? So we can practice along.
Thanks,
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Here is a 45-minute video that I put together for Virtual NI Technology Days. It covers a ton of tips and tricks for faster LabVIEW development.
http://www.ni.com/webcast/3311/en/
If you want to skip to the good stuff, I talk about Quick Drop for 15 minutes in this presentation. Start at 1:38 for that.
Darren Nattinger, CLA
LabVIEW Artisan and Nugget Penman

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Okay so I believe the issue is not the name of the VI. You see the name of the OpenG VI is actually "Wait (ms)__ogtk.vi" But this isn't what the quick drop will index as the name. Quick drop indexes the name of the window if it is different then the name of the VI. So if you go to the Window Appearance on the OpenG VI you'll see that the Window Title is "Wait (ms)" which is the same name as the native wait primative.
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