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Drawing on the experiences of a world-class LabVIEW development organization, The LabVIEW Style Book is the definitive guide to best practices in LabVIEW development.

Leading LabVIEW development manager Peter A. Blume presents practical guidelines or “rules” for optimizing every facet of your applications: ease of use, efficiency, readability, simplicity, performance, maintainability, and robustness. Blume explains each style rule thoroughly, presenting realistic examples and illustrations. He even presents “nonconforming” examples that show what not to do–and why not.

Coverage includes

• Significance of style: How good style improves quality and actually saves time over the full project life cycle

• Before you code: Configuring your LabVIEW environment, and organizing your files on disk and in the LabVIEW project

• LabVIEW project specifications: A specialized standard for specifying LabVIEW application requirements

• Efficient VI layout and development: front panel, block diagram, icons, and connectors

• Data structures: Choosing data types, efficient use of arrays and clusters, and special considerations with nested data structures

• Error handling strategies: Trapping and reporting errors for robust and reliable applications

• Design patterns: Standard VI architectures and application frameworks that promote good style

• Documentation: Essential rules for source code documentation and streamlining the process

• Code reviews: Enforcing a style convention using a checklist, the LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit, and peer reviews

• Appendixes: Convenient glossary and style rules summary

This book will be indispensable to anyone who wants to develop or maintain quality LabVIEW applications: developers, managers, and end users alike. Additionally, it will also be valuable to those preparing for NI’s Certified LabVIEW Developer or Certified LabVIEW Architect exams, which contain significant content on development style.

Foreword by Darren Nattinger 

Preface 

Acknowledgments 

About the Author 

Chapter 1          The Significance of Style 

Chapter 2          Prepare for Good Style 

Chapter 3          Front Panel Style 

Chapter 4          Block Diagram 

Chapter 5          Icon and Connector 

Chapter 6          Data Structures 

Chapter 7          Error Handling 

Chapter 8          Design Patterns 

Chapter 9          Documentation 

Chapter 10        Code Reviews

Appendix A       Glossary 

Appendix B       Style Rules Summary 

Index 

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 13 Ratings

Just excellent. - 2008-12-08
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I'm reading this now and learning plenty as I do. It is very thoughtful and insightful. This book is defining, for me, the step up from being able to use LabVIEW to appreciating good programming style and aspiring to it. This book is much more about why some ways of doing things are better than others, much more about ways to think of LabVIEW, and not just another reference explaining how to use each of LV's features.

P. Blume and LabVIEW Rock!!!!!!!! - 2008-07-29
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P. Blume nailed it!!!!! I am a heavy user of LabView (aka "the View") and this guy absolutely nailed it. This may as well be entitled "the Joy of LabVIEW". I have learned more new positions and ways to get the best out of my partner (LabVIEW) than ever before. Let's just say after reading this masterpiece a cig and a drink were in order.

Kudos to P. Blume and the team at Bloomy Controls.

Informative Book - 2008-07-12
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I read the first couple chapters and was impressed with the quality of information. I then gave it to a programmer I am supervising for a project. I had him read it and told him to adhere to the standards of the book. After a couple weeks the code he is turning out is much improved. The flow is better, the code is documented and there is actual error control being used. It will be much easier to maintain the project as time goes on. The point of the book is to write better labview diagrams so I think it works quite well in that regards.

Don't Waste your Money - 2008-05-19
Reviewer Rating:
As the Title suggests "The Labview Style Book" only focuses on Style and provides no useful information outside the scope of the title.

Must read if your company seriously considers LabVIEW - 2009-05-18
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Mr. Blume is a very successful entrepreneur who has used LabVIEW as a central strategy for his company. His practices are worth following. If you want to be any bigger than a team of three in the NI environment, this is a must read.
There are very few books on LabVIEW and this one I found best. This is because following sound programming practices is central for graphical languages.

The LabVIEW Style Book (National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation Series)

I'm programming full-time exclusively in LabVIEW since 2005 and I have implemented more than 70% of what Mr. Blume suggests. You certainly give your customer highly re-usable, scalable and maintainable system if you follow this book.

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