Author Archives: Jim Kring

New VIPM Video Explains Features and Concepts

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Jim Kring

We’ve created a new video (below) for the VIPM product homepage to help explain the features and concepts behind VIPM, including the Professional and Enterprise (coming soon) editions of the product.  We’re really happy with how it came out and … Continue reading →

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A Early Look at VIPM Enterprise Edition

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Jim Kring

It goes without saying that VI Package Manager is JKI’s tool of choice for managing our reusable code and library dependencies in LabVIEW.  But even though VIPM makes it easy to build your own packages, it’s still kind of hard to … Continue reading →

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Announcing the New JKI Wire-Nut Toolkit for LabVIEW

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Jim Kring

JKI is pleased to announce the release of the new Wire-Nut Toolkit for LabVIEW,  a revolutionary new addition to the LabVIEW dataflow programming language, available now! A Tool You Never Knew You Needed The JKI Wire-Nut Toolkit for LabVIEW is a … Continue reading →

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Unit Testing VI Properties

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Jim Kring

Have you ever set a reentrant VI to non-reentrant in order to facilitate debugging, only to forget to set the VI back to reentrant when you’re done?  This mistake can be very tough to debug, as the difference in behavior (between … Continue reading →

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You can now upload VI Packages to the NI forums

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Jim Kring

It is now possible to upload VI Packages (and other VIPM file types) to the NI forums. VI Packages are a great way to share your reusable VIs with other LabVIEW developers, allowing you to get your reusable LabVIEW VIs … Continue reading →

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VIPM issue with LabVIEW 8.6.1 upgrade

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Jim Kring

In the last couple weeks, we have received several support inquiries from people who can’t get VIPM to connect to LabVIEW 8.6.1 (immediately after upgrading from 8.6). In each case the user’s “VI Server: Exported VIs” settings (in the Tools>>Options … Continue reading →

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Opening up LabVIEW for Third-party Add-ons (like VI Tester)

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Jim Kring

Recently, National Instruments has been vocal about wanting to provide better support for third-party LabVIEW add-ons.  A huge demonstration of this commitment, recently, was allowing JKI to integrate VI Tester into the LabVIEW project environment.  In fact, it might seem surprising or even … Continue reading →

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LabVIEW Feature Request – Refresh Menus Programmatically

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Jim Kring

One LabVIEW feature that (if it existed) would make a big difference for VIPM users is the ability to refresh the menus (e.g., the File, Tools, and Help menus) programmatically after installing packages that add menu-launch VIs.  Maybe we could do … Continue reading →

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JKI State Machine vs. the Mythical Man Month

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Jim Kring

Our team likes to say that the JKI State Machine is “the easiest way to create powerful, maintainable VIs in LabVIEW”.  We use this simple, yet powerful, state machine template nearly every day in our own LabVIEW applications, and we … Continue reading →

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Eating our own dog food at JKI

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Jim Kring

At JKI, we like to “eat our own dog food”, which is just a fancy way of saying that we use our own products.  Specifically, we use our own products to help us create our products.  I’ve alluded to this … Continue reading →

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