We used the Labview dashboard on and off in testing and found it pretty useful, mainly for the 984 byte user data packet but a bit on the camera as well.
There is a Windriver / C++ equivalent to the LabView dashboard application. I believe there is also a demo application included. There's quite a bit mentioned about the Dashboard class in the 1.1 update notes (
http://first.wpi.edu/FRC/frcupdates.html)