Refer to the following table for best practices for organizing components.
| Guideline | Required or Recommended? | Details |
|---|---|---|
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Set the Exported or Non-exported designation of the VIs in your API appropriately. |
Required |
The Exported designation indicates to users which VIs are guaranteed to have a consistent interface. |
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Mark a VI as Exported only if it is a public member of your API. |
Required |
Mark a VI as Exported even when it was deprecated in LabVIEW NXG but was part of the public API in earlier versions of LabVIEW. Upgraded customer code might still call the deprecated VIs. |
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If a G Type is on the connector pane of an exported VI in your API, also mark that G Type Exported. |
Required |
N/A |
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Follow the namespacing guideline [Company].[Product].[Component].gcomp for your API component. |
Required |
For example, NI.G Core.Data Type.gcomp is a component NI owns, part of the G Core product (in other words, the core libraries that compose the G language), and these VIs pertain to parsing Data Types. |