Embedded Labview exe in a LabView program

Is it possible to integrate an exisiting LabView *.exe file in another LabView vi or LabView project?
The existing LabView *.exe does output some measurement data on the front panel, but I would need this data written e.g. to an Excel sheet. So I thought it must be possible to embed the LabView *.exe file into another LabView vi, that reads data from the *.exe file and writes the data into a data file.
I don't have access to the original LabView program, before it was converted to an *.exe file and I don't know the settings used to built the *.exe.
Toodles,
Optimike

Without testing I'm not sure if it is working.
Maybe you should be able to open an application reference to the application. You should add the entries for VI Server in the configuration file to listen on a specific port. In LV 8.6.1 you can open the application with this port. With this reference you can try to open a VI reference for the VI from which you want the data. Use Get CTRL Value to read the data from the control.
The application must be running before you can do this. For the final solution you must make any error handling on errors by the Open Application Reference primitive.
The thing I'm not sure about is if this will work across different versions of LV.
Waldemar
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