What labview package do I need to develop third party labview instrument drivers?

[tashk]

We have been asked develop labview 6.1 drivers for a third party data acquisition card. What Labview package do we need to buy, basic, pro etc?

[BrandonS]

The only way to really program for a third party data acquisition card in LabVIEW would be through a "call library function node". You would have to call the dll that third party card developer provided. As far as I know all LabVIEW packages contain a "call library function node". I would recomend buying at least the full development environment because of some of the additional features in that package.

[tashk]

Thanks for your reply.

What features of the full package do you reckon are helpful?