VI Server on Labview Runtime

[westj]

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My team and I have been working on a client-server based application. The server is a Labview based and is serving up remote panels via an Explorer window. The client machine has the Labview runtime engine (LVRT) on it. At a certain point, we need to execute a VI within a complied Labview EXE file but run it on the client machine. We have been able to do it but the solution was not what we expected.

We expected to be able to open an application reference to the VI Server on the Client machine (with the LVRT engine) and instruct the VI Server to execute the VI. We found that we could not do this unless there was already a VI running on the client machine. The VI that was running had to