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The Software Toolbox Extender
The Premier OPC Data Enabler for Visual Studio 2008, 2005 or 2003, including Express Editions.
Connect OPC Tags directly to controls on your Form, without writing any code, just use your
mouse!
Or take complete control of your data with our
feature-rich API interface.
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An Extender Success Story
"This product is an amazing tool – it's just like they say – point, click, connect and I can read and
write OPC data from my OPC server"
Steve Osborne, Sewell Industrial Elctronics
Read how Sewell Industrial
Electronics profited by using the Extender
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Bind OPC Tags to ANY .NET, ActiveX, or User-Defined control without code.
Add an Extender to your form and watch as new
OPC properties are magically added to all of your existing Form components and objects. Now bind any winforms control/component to OPC Tags without writing a single line
of code.
Sample Extender Dialog Box. Assign an Item to a property on any Winform component, and tag subscriptions are done for you automatically. No Coding Required.
See for yourself how quickly you can enable data acquisition on your .NET forms using the Extender!
How is Extender.NET different from the rest?
- Does not sub-class
existing components!
Extender "adds" functionality to existing .NET components.
- Works with ANY .NET component
, including those installed with Visual Studio.NET, your own UserControls, as well as 3rd party components such as Dundas, Infragistics, Syncfusion etc.
- Expandable
: Extender is not tied to OPC DA!
Instead, engines connect to your data source such as OPC DA, OPC UA, or you build your own!
- Truly code-less
: Other components allow you to bind OPC Tags to Form objects, but often require code to do that. Not with Extender!
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Powerful & easy API gives you control of your OPC data when you need to access it via code.
Sometimes you need to do things via code.
A powerful set of easy API commands exist for:
- Subscribing and unsubscribing to/from Tags
- Reading 1..x Items in a single call
- Writing to 1..x items in a single call
- Browsing Computers, OPC Servers and Tags etc.
The Extender API is perfect for console apps, data monitors, data
collection programs, or any other application where a GUI is not required.
Not only that, we put the same ease of use into the the API as we
did with the GUI. So if you change OPC Servers down the road, you only have to point your Extender to the new Engines. Your code doesn't change.
Our large collection of Code Samples will help you get started on using the Extender's API interface.
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