Hi,
As you mentioned, VI SERVER can be used to control VIs and Executables.
This attached example ilustrates this use.
I hope the information is helpful
Regards,
Blasioz Valenzuela
National Instruments
PS. The example needs of these two files.
The first attachment is a Library. You need to open the control remote.vi in the windows side.
The other file is a VI that you are going to use to create an executable and put in the path that you mentioned in your question.