There are numerous reasons why you would like to allow your LabVIEW application to be extended with plugins. First you may want to allow your customer or a third party to add some new functionality to your application. LVOOP plugins provide a way for you to allow third parties to extend your application. Second you may want to separate the built and development process of the core application from the development process of the features of the applications. With OOP projects LabVIEW development environment slows down dramatically as the number of classes gets too high. It may be wise to separate your application so that only the core elements form the main application and all other elements are provided as add-on components. Third you may want to control the memory footprint of your application and specify at runtime which components are loaded into memory; there is no need to keep the code for unused features in memory. Consider for example that your application supports multiple file formats or device drivers. You can load the needed file format plugins or device drivers on demand into memory at runtime. more…