Select File»Create Project to display the Create Project dialog box, which contains the following customizable templates and sample projects:

• Simple State Machine —A template that defines sections of code and the order in which they execute.
• Finite Measurement —A sample project that uses the Simple State Machine template to acquire a single measurement.
• Queued Message Handler —A template that monitors a user interface while allowing you to perform other tasks, such as data acquisition or logging.
• Continuous Measurement and Logging —A sample project that uses the Queued Message Handler template to acquire measurements continuously and log them to disk.
• Actor Framework —A template for an application that consists of multiple independent tasks that communicate with one another.
• Feedback Evaporative Cooler —A sample project that uses the Actor Framework template to cool a water tank, where the cooler is represented by either simulated or real hardware, controlled either manually or automatically, and viewed with one of two user interfaces.
• Touch Panel Project —A template that defines an application for a touch panel target running the Windows Embedded Standard operating system. This template includes a touch panel VI that runs on a touch panel target and a VI that runs on the host computer. The VI running on the host computer uses the Queued Message Handler template.

Templates show how to implement commonly-used design patterns in LabVIEW code, whereas sample projects show how to use a template for a specific application. Each template and sample project contains the project libraries, functions, structures, and user interfaces necessary to get started developing a scalable, robust application.

Refer to ni.com for more information about application design patterns.