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| Download | Size | Description | Date |
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| Presentations | |||
| Building a Remote HMI Using Web Technologies - Webcast | 9 Min. | Explore the technologies for creating a human machine interface (HMI) for an embedded system when web services are a correct fit. This webcast includes a demo that displays a data dashboard created using Twitter Bootstrap, Google Charts, and jQuery UI elements served from a LabVIEW web service. | 08/18/2014 |
| How to Eat the Elephant - Turning Ideas Into Architecture - NIWeek 2014 | 3 MB | So you have an idea. Now what? Discover how Bloomy transforms ideas about how software should work into a software architecture that does work. Learn what an architecture is and why you need one. Also explore how to select the appropriate architecture for your application. | 08/07/2014 |
| LabVIEW GUI Design: Moving Beyond the Palettes - NIWeek 2013 | 71 MB | A successful GUI is intuitive and user friendly, and it makes users more efficient when interacting with the system. At this session, learn how to use third-party tools to design professional GUI elements as well as how to import these elements into the LabVIEW environment. Study real-world examples and discuss the methods used to create them. Also explore the techniques you need to create streamlined, intuitive, and elegant LabVIEW user interfaces. | 08/13/2013 |
| Custom Code Deserves Custom Analysis - NIWeek 2012 | 916 KB | Examine how to use the LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit to help automate large project code reviews, especially when creating custom rules for specific code base/project needs. This session includes a demo and tutorial worksheet. | 08/14/2012 |
| User Interface Tips 2.0 - NIWeek 2011 | 4 MB | Discuss user interface design techniques and how to apply them to NI LabVIEW in this interactive presentation. Learn about conforming to Windows OS standards, user interactions, XControls, and .NET, as well as unique ways to display data. | 08/11/2011 |
| Software | |||
| Fast Dictionary for LabVIEW Source Code | Download Shamus Patry's source code for optimized mapping of key, value pairs in LabVIEW. | 04/22/2015 | |
| LabVIEW Source Code for Google Charts - Example | This example source code will make use of Google Charts as they provide an easy way for us to get up and running with thin client development without needing to know too much about JavaScript or HTML coding. | 06/03/2014 | |
| Getting Started with the Actor Framework - LabVIEW 2014 | This tutorial source code will help developers who are familiar with the common design patterns of “procedural” LabVIEW development transition to the Actor Framework in LabVIEW 2014. | 03/25/2015 | |
| Getting Started with the Actor Framework - LabVIEW 2013 | This tutorial source code will help developers who are familiar with the common design patterns of “procedural” LabVIEW development transition to the Actor Framework in LabVIEW 2013. | 03/25/2015 | |
| White Papers | |||
| The End of Windows XP | 496 KB | Microsoft will stop supporting Windows XP on April 8th, 2014. This means no more security updates or technical assistance from Microsoft, leaving XP systems vulnerable to security threats such as cyber-attacks, data theft, and viruses. | |
| Up and Running with LabVIEW Web Services | 2 MB | This whitepaper will act as an introduction to LabVIEW Web Services in LabVIEW 2013. We will step through the process of creating a LabVIEW Web Service that will publish data to a thin client rendered in a web browser. | 07/16/2014 |
| LabVIEW Style Book | |||
| Preface | 138 KB | Preface | |
| Chapter 1 | 1,910 KB | Chapter 1: The Significance of Style | 05/04/2008 |
| LabVIEW Project Specification Template | 98 KB | Use this template for creating a LabVIEW project specification, as discussed in Chapter 2. | |
| Project Directory Template | 19 KB | A hierarchy of folders for storing source files on disk, populated with several templates, including a LabVIEW project. The directory and project templates contain folder hierarchies organized according to the illustrations in Chapter 2. | 06/14/2007 |
| Table 6-3: Controls and Data Types | 50 KB | A spreadsheet containing the LabVIEW controls and supported data types, as shown in Table 6-3, without page breaks. This was contributed by reader Mark Shepard of North Bennigton, VT. | 06/07/2007 |
| Design Pattern Templates 1.1 ZIP File | 318 KB | This download contains several pattern templates and supporting utility VIs. The templates include the Immediate SubVI (8.1.1), Continuous Loop (8.1.3), Event-Handling Loop (8.1.4), Classic State Machine (8.2.1), Queued State Machine (8.2.2), and Event-Driven State Machine (8.2.3). The templates and utilities are accessed via a LabVIEW 8 style Project Library. Version 1.1 features the addition of the Producer-Consumer design pattern (4.3.4). | 09/12/2008 |
| VI Analyzer Test Configuration | 23 KB | VI Analyzer test configuration file contains custom test criteria and rankings according to the recommendations in Chapter 10. | 06/07/2007 |
| Style Rules Checklist 1.1 | 276 KB | A checklist for conducting code reviews, as discussed in Chapter 10. Version 1.1 contains formatting improvements, including font styles indicating rule priority. | 09/12/2008 |
| Other | |||
| Intro to LabVIEW Guide - Infographic | 2.4 MB | The 'Intro to LabVIEW' infographic goes through important topics like data types, commonly used structures, and data communication. We've also added an 'Advanced LabVIEW' section that looks at the most commonly used VIs for string, array and file manipulation along with common architectures used by LabVIEW professionals. | 02/18/2015 |