Creating and Distributing Custom Templates with the New Create Project Dialog

[Elijah_K]

If you haven’t heard, LabVIEW 2012 features a redesigned ‘Create Project’ dialog that provides recommended starting points for a breadth of measurement and control systems. One of our primary goals was to ensure that you don’t have to start new projects from scratch, and to help the LabVIEW community leverage well-established and robust architectures. In the process of designing this new experience, we recognized the importance of making it open and extensible by the LabVIEW community so that you can create and add your own custom templates and distribute them to colleagues and customers.

In this entry, I wanted to provide insight into the necessary steps to create a template, package and distribute it as a VI Package file, and also explore...  [Read more]