LabVIEW: Advanced Programming Techniques, 2e

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Presents a wide-ranging compendium of advanced programming techniques incorporating the new features and enhancements of LabVIEW 8.0 Offers self-contained chapters to let you select the coverage best suited to your needs Discusses LabVIEW techniques for programming within the .NET framework Includes a new chapter exploring the new shared variable feature introduced in LabVIEW 8.0 Examines the new LabVIEW project view in detail. Toghether seeking deeper knowledge of LabVIEW’s capabilities or striving to build enhanced VIs, professionals know they will find everything they need in LabVIEW: Advanced Programming Techniques. Updated to reflect the functionalities and changes made to LabVIEW Version 8.0, this second edition delves deeply into the enhancements that continue to make LabVIEW one of the most popular and widely used graphical programming environments across the engineering community. LabVIEW’s new features are by no means trivial and neither are the updates made to the new edition of this popular bestseller. The authors introduce the changes to the front panel controls, the Standard State Machine template, new drivers, the instrument I/O assistant, new error handling functions, hyperthreading, and Express VIs. A new chapter mirrors the introduction of the Shared Variables function in LabVIEW 8.0 and a new section explores the LabVIEW project view. The chapter on ActiveX was revised to include discussion of the Microsoft™ .NET ® framework and new examples of programming in LabVIEW using .NET. Numerous illustrations and step-by-step explanations provide hands-on guidance. Reflecting not only changes to LabVIEW but also to the programming environment in general, LabVIEW: Advanced Programming Techniques, Second Edition remains an indispensable resource to help programmers take their LabVIEW knowledge to the next level.
	Authors and Organization: Rick Bitter Taqi Mohiuddin Matt Nawrocki
	Publisher: CRC Press
	Copyright Year: 2006
	Edition: 2
	ISBN-10: 08493332531
	ISBN-13: 9780849333255
	Summary of How NI Technology is Used: This book explores advanced development techniques in LabVIEW.
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[NIquist]

Good book overall. Too much wasted effort in the first chapters going over the basics considering it's called Advanced Programming Techiniques. And, unfortunately, the CD is filled with 5.1 code that won't open with 8.5. That's an oversight that should have been addressed.