JKI is pleased to announce that VI Package Manager™ 2010 (VIPM) is the official download vehicle of National Instruments’ LabVIEW™ Tools Network (LVTN). This represents the culmination of a lot hard work, in collaboration with National Instruments, to make it easy for LabVIEW users everywhere to create, share, and sell LabVIEW Add-ons.
VIPM 2010 includes lots of great features specifically tailored to help users find and install LabVIEW Add-ons from the LVTN, and to help add-on developers distribute their products to thousands of users and customers around the world.
If you’re a LabVIEW User…
VIPM 2010 automatically connects you to the LVTN. You can use VIPM’s built-in search features to find the LabVIEW Add-ons you need and can install them into your LabVIEW environment in just a couple clicks. VIPM also notifies you when new versions of your add-ons are available and makes upgrading them a breeze.
If you’re a LabVIEW Add-on Developer…
VIPM’s “VI Package” format is the fastest, most efficient, and lowest-risk way to put your product in front of thousands of LabVIEW users on the LVTN.
VIPM’s built-in features like palette generation, platform requirements settings, and dynamic license and activation binding (via NI’s Licensing and Activation Toolkit) make it easy to comply with all the requirements to submit your add-on to the LVTN. This means that your add-on will be less likely to be rejected by NI on review.
Once your add-on is published to the LVTN, it will appear automatically in the package list of every VIPM user. Thousands of LabVIEW users will immediately be able to install and evaluate (and buy!) your LabVIEW Add-on.
These reasons and more are why National Instruments recommends VIPM for building LabVIEW Add-ons for the LabVIEW Tools Network. Visit our VIPM product page to learn more about VIPM and get started downloading, creating, and sharing LabVIEW Add-ons today!
I would just like to wish JKI many congratulations on this achievement, VIPM rocks :beer_mug:
I have used the VIPM as a community user for what seems a long time now, and I think I can say that from the beginning when I first came across it and started using it, I felt that it provided something that was at that time missing from within LabVIEW itself .
To me the usefulness of the tool and its general professionalism mean that it would always make sense for this NI JKI type tie up to happen. JKI had provide a solution to a NI problem that had been begging for a solution for many years.
So thanks again for all the work guys and thanks for supporting the community throughout this journey I do feel the community aspect of this product has help it arrive at where it now. Something we could maybe all learn from.
cheers
Dannyt
Hi Danny. Thanks for the very kind words. Yes, it has been quite a long time that the JKI team have been working on VIPM and it is a great accomplishment, that we are proud of, to be able to work with NI to take VIPM to the “next level”
And, we hope that this collaboration helps open many new doors for both JKI and others in the LabVIEW ecosystem. Cheers!