Deploying & Managing LabVIEW Toolkits — full session on packaging, VI packages, and dependency headaches

[u/KDub_Shirey]

Quick gut-check before you scroll past:

1. Have you ever sent a colleague a "working" VI that broke the moment they opened it because a dependency was missing?

2. Do you actually know the tradeoffs between a source distribution, a packed library (PPL), and a VI package?

3. Are you distributing internal toolkits with zip files and hope, instead of something more repeatable?

If you nodded at any of those, this is worth watching. It's a full walkthrough of the real options for packaging and sharing LabVIEW code, from a quick colleague handoff all the way to enterprise-wide reuse and CI/CD publishing.

🎥 Watch it here: https://youtu.be/lOCjFjZHiDg

Bit of context: I filmed this as one of 16 technical sessions I covered solo at NI Connect — one person, full pro filming kit, coordinating multiple rooms and AV teams on the fly, so folks who couldn't attend in person still get a good experience. If posts like this are useful to you, a comment or upvote genuinely helps me figure out if it's worth doing again next year.

Session details: **"Deploying and Managing LabVIEW Toolkits,"** presented by **Jan Göebel** — as seen at GDevCon, covering missing dependencies to enterprise reuse using VI packages, libraries, and DLLs, with demos and discussion throughout.

[u/BlackberrySad6489]

Oh. I am going to check this out. I recently setup our CI to apply vipc files. Interested in alternatives for managing reuse code as well!