Net offers a fast and easy access to the opc classic client technology. Extensive documentation is provided as a help2 visual studio plugin that. Net api is primarily intended to provide interoperability between existing. A better option for foundation members is to download the opc. Net standard stack and samples from the opc foundation. Unfortunately, too many api providers build their apis before thinking through the critical success factors, resulting in apis that fail to meet business objectives. Addremove programs in windows will not allow you to complete this process. Xmlda server applications without previous knowledge of the opc standard. The core components archive has a previous versions including 3. Opc da client api for labview by grovf national instruments. Sure its not free just as paulengr says, nothing is free in the. Downloading file opc foundationnet apisource codedebug. So far i have been able to call the readraw method with a.
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Net classes that handle the opc server access with the necessary dcom. This free tool was originally designed by opc foundation. Net api sdk is a shareware software in the category miscellaneous developed by opc foundation. Net api that handles all com and opc details needed to interface with opc servers. Net api redistributables x86 is no longer working correctly or is corrupt.
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