Conversion of Vector BLF format into LabView

Hello,
I am trying to import Vector Cantech BLF logging files into LabView. Does anyone know of a converter or process to do such a thing?
Thanks!

Good day!
National Instruments offer a series of Data Plugins to extend the data file acces capabilities of NI products such as LabVIEW, DIAdem and NI Data Finder. Among these dataplugins, there are two for Vector products.
Check the following links to learn how to use Data Plugins with LabVIEW:
http://www.ni.com/white-paper/11951/en
And the following two to download the relevant Data Plugin (I don't know which version of the MDF file you are using)
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/452
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/6568
Hope that helps!
Cheers.

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