Technical Guides: LabVIEW Dev Center

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Program Information

NI Tools Network Developer's FAQ

Developing and Preparing Your Product for the Tools Network

VI Package Manager: An Introduction

VI Package Manager: How to Create a Package

VI Package Manager: Creating a Palette

VI Package Manager: Adding Examples, Help, and Tools Menu Items

VI Package Manager: Adding a License Agreement

VI Package Manager: Custom Installation Options

VI Package Manager: Licensing a Package

Developing a VI-Based API

File and Folder Names for Integrating into LabVIEW

LabVIEW Palette Guidelines

Examples

Adding Example VIs to the NI Example Finder

Including Examples with a VI Package File

Using VI Analyzer to Review LabVIEW APIs

Instrument Driver Development Resources for NI-VISA Drivers

Product Documentation

Documentation

Adding a Help Document Link to the Context Help

Documentation Best Practices

VI Properties Editor

VI to XML Documentation Tool

NIWeek Session: Professionalize Your Add-On or App With Icons and Documentation Best Practices

LabVIEW Help Menu Explained - Link to PDF, HTML, etc.

Creating a LabVIEW Development Tool

Calling Internal LabVIEW Properties Externally

Integrating into the LabVIEW Menus

Get VI Information

LabVIEW Scripting

Creating a Custom Bookmark Manager for LabVIEW

Calling External Code From LabVIEW

Calling C/C++ DLLs from LabVIEW

Tutorial: Configuring the Call Library Function Node to call a Simple DLL

Tutorial: Creating Wrapper VIs for C/C++ DLL functions using the Import Shared Library Wizard

Passing and Receiving Pointers with C/C++ DLLs from LabVIEW

Dereferencing Pointers from C/C++ DLLs in LabVIEW

Calling C/++ DLLs Containing Simple and Complex Datatypes from LabVIEW

Calling .NET Assemblies from LabVIEW

Instantiating .NET Objects from LabVIEW

Calling Methods and Accessing Properties of a .NET Class / Object

Embedding/Hosting .NET UI Controls on a LabVIEW Front Panel

Register Callback VIs for .NET Events in LabVIEW

Calling ActiveX Code from LabVIEW
Calling Scripting Languages and Executables from LabVIEW

Inter-Application Communication

File I/O

TCP

Command Line
ActiveX

TCP and .NET Remoting

Licensing and Activation 

Choosing the Correct Licensing Method

Download the Third Party Licensing & Activation Toolkit

License a LabVIEW Library Using Standard Mode

License a LabVIEW Library Using Advanced Mode

License a LabVIEW Executable Using Instant PLUS

Add Licensing Checks to an Application's Source Code

Download and install NILM 4.0.1 or Later

Download the NILM API for LabVIEW

Request a license file for your product

View additional documentation for NILM API for LabVIEW

Distributing an Add-on

Hands-On - How to Build a LabVIEW Add-on with VI Package Manager

Building an Installer for an API

Example: Detect Hardware Drivers Before Loading a VI

Adding 'Shared' Files to an Installer Created with Application Builder

Creating and Managing Reusable Code in LabVIEW

Scalable Architectures

Strategy for designing an API

Best Practices for creating Icons in LabVIEW

VI Package Manager

Source Code Control - from Software Configuration Management and LabVIEW

Creating and Managing Reusable Code in LabVIEW - Presentation from 2012 LabVIEW Developer Education Day

Submit and Update Your Product

Submit Your New Product to the NI Tools Network

Update Your Existing Product on the NI Tools Network