Source Files Page (Packed Library Properties Dialog Box)

Use this page of the Packed Library Properties dialog box to add and remove files and folders from the packed project library and to specify files to include in the build.

This page includes the following components:

Option Description
Project Files

Displays the tree view of items under My Computer in the Project Explorer window. Click the arrow buttons next to the Exported VIs and Always Included listboxes to add selected files from Project Files to those listboxes or to remove selected files from the listboxes.

Select files from Project Files and click the arrow buttons next to the Top-level Library and Always Included listboxes to add or remove files from the listboxes.
Top-level Library

Specifies the exported VIs, which users can access as functions of the .NET interop assembly. You must include at least one exported VI. Click the arrow buttons next to the Exported VIs listbox to add selected VIs from the Project Files listbox or to remove selected VIs from the Exported VIs listbox.

Click the arrow button next to the Top-level Library listbox to add a selected project library from the Project Files listbox. The packed library also includes the dependencies of the project library.
Always Included

Specifies the dynamic VIs and support files always to include in the .NET interop assembly, even if the exported VIs do not contain references to the files.

Click the arrow buttons next to the Always Included listbox to add or remove selected files from the Always Included listbox. When you add a folder to the listbox, you add all items in the folder and cannot remove individual items. You cannot move private data controls to the Always Included listbox.

Note Dynamic VIs are VIs that LabVIEW dynamically calls through the VI Server. Support files are non-VI files, such as drivers, text files, help files, and .NET assemblies that the packed library uses. LabVIEW includes non-LabVIEW support files in a folder outside the library when you build the packed library. If you add a packed library to the Always Included listbox, LabVIEW also includes the packed library in the folder outside the library when you build.

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