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Re: Best Practices for Dynamic VI Loading (VI Lifetime Management Video)

Elijah_K
Active Participant

The use of dynamically loaded VIs is a common and important approach for large applications.  It can help decrease load-time or make it possible to 'plug-in' new functionality into an existing application.  It's a concept I use in several of the examples I've shared in this blog, but one that often trips up users who are just experimenting with dynamic calls for the first time.

Christina Rogers, author of the Eyes on VIs blog, just posted a great video that explains how LabVIEW manages VI references, which is important for dynamic VI calls.  If you have a few minutes, be sure to check it out: VI Reference Lifetime

Elijah Kerry
NI Director, Software Community
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vishots.com
Member

For even more information, I go into this in great detail with the VI Shots tutorial: Dynamic Process VIs in LabVIEW

Michael Aivaliotis

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Wire_Warrior
Member

Okay....I must be missing something.  The link to the Eyes on VIs blog that I have does not link to this video.  The last post there is Aug 01/2011.  What is the correct URL?

Thanks

Jason

Wire Warrior

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vishots.com
Member

I think it's just the video, no actual blog post.

Michael Aivaliotis

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