Creating a GUI with visual studio for a Labview code

[Makarov90]

hi, well i'm creating a labview program for my final year project using ToF technic and i want to create a visual studio GUI for my code, the problem is i'm not sure if it's possible to do, and if it is i couldn't find the how for example to display a plot and a camera from my labview code to my Visual Studio UserInterface ! can anyone who worked in a similar project help me ! thanks. 

[Gregory]

Hi Makarov90,

Why do you want to do that?

[Makarov90]

you mean why i don't make a GUI with LabView ? well for the graphical quality of my UI i want to create it with VS ! 

[Gregory]

Here is a presentation from Derek Trepanier about making nice LabVIEW GUIs.

https://learn.ni.com/center-of-excellence/resources/1183/ui-developing-labview-user-interfaces-that-...

[altenbach]

I guess the question is why even use LabVIEW at all, because the UI is such an integral part of it. Once you have a working LabVIEW program, the UI is already included for free. :D. There are plenty of commercial software applications where you would never guess they are entirely done in LabVIEW (e.g. JKI, but there are many others). Do you have very special requirements where you don't think LabVIEW can handle it? Are you just looking for some different "look & feel"?

Of course you could run the LabVIEW program elsewhere (or locally) and use web services to connect to it. Still, seems like a horrible kludge.

[Makarov90]

thank you for your help friend 

[Makarov90]

altenbach , i'm not underestimating the power of Labview , and i'm just a begginer in Labview, i'm sure there are seas of features in labview that i don't know, all i want in my UI is when i click a button it takes me to another panel or form like in visual studio , can you help? 

[altenbach]

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@Makarov90 wrote:

... all i want in my UI is when i click a button it takes me to another panel or form like in visual studio , can you help? 

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Each subVI can show it's front panel when called and close it afterwards. That's probably all you need.