How To: Reference LabVIEW VIs in Memory from a Compiled Application?

Hello all! This is my first post on these boards despite the fact that I have been doing LabVIEW for almost 8 years...so go easy on me!
Basically my issue is this: I want to write a compiled application for my team to use to help us have a standardized tool to push VI help tip information. So I created a nice front panel, gave it memory storage via XML to remember info you might want to not have to type over and over again. I also gave it some formatting options, etc. Overall, a nice tool to speed up a repetitive task.
However, it runs great as a VI, but compiled does not work at all and I am sure many of you can see where this is going. I have cobbled together some snippets of code found on these boards to collect a list of references and names of all the VIs in memory that are not currently running. Then I use a ring control to parse which VI I want to target and then push the parsed and formatted help tip to that VI. But the reality is apparently that LabVIEW and a compiled application do not share the same memory allocation, because they are separate application instances.
Is there ANY way around this?
I tried one thing that seemed to make sense, but so far has resulted in the same thing. I tried to do a type def call by reference with an asynchronous call and a wait on asynchronous call function to return the reference list. However, even though this bit of code is still a VI and NOT part of the compiled code, it still somehow picks up the application instance of the owning app, and therefore does not see any of the open VIs in memory that LabVIEW controls.
Any help would be immense, as I am going nuts trying to figure this out!
Info: LabVIEW 2012.f3
I am also attaching a screen cap of the block diagram of the VI that collects the references.
Thanks in advance!
South West Applied Technologies
Senior LabVIEW Developer

Well you run into a security limitation of VI server here. Many methods and properties are not possible to be accessed through a remote application instance. Any Application instance that is opened with an address is considered a remote instance. Basically if you leave the address open in the Open Application, LabVIEW shortcuts to the internal instance. If you connect some address even if it is "localhost", LabVIEW goes through the TCP/IP socket for any and all methods and proeprties and the application instance is considered a remote instance.
Open your floating help window, and place your cursor above your property. Notice the text in there: Remote Access disallowed: Yes.
The reason for this is, that if this method was available over remote connections, anyone with access to your network could connect to that LabVIEW instance and basically discover any and every VI you have currently loaded and even download them to their own computer. And this can not be fixed. This security is not possible to circumvent other than hacking into LabVIEW itself.
I guess this kills your entire idea. An executable can't connect to another executable or the LabVIEW development environment other than through a remote connection! That is due to strict process isolation rules in all modern OSes. The only possible workaround I could think is to create VIs for all remote access protected methods and properties, copying them to every LabVIEW installation you want to access with your shell (and that likely would have to be done through the network as the according methods in the VI server interface are also remote access protected) and then call those VIs through VI server.
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

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