Benefits
From OPC Labs Knowledge Base
Support
- We respond to every post on our Online Forums (http://www.opclabs.com/forum/index).
- As opposed to many other vendors, our technical support is public, which means that any possible issues are visible on the Web and you can find them - and an advise on how to resolve them - without having to become a customer first. If your issue involves sensitive or confidential information, we can provide support to you via email.
Costs
- no need to pay yearly to OPCF to stay closed-source. It gets cheaper to purchase the toolkit rather than paying annual OPC Foundation fees.
Developer Friendliness
Notices
- CLS-compliant
- data type inference in OPC UA Writes
- formatting feature
- debugger: does not show unnecessary private fields
- automatically adjusts UA timing to debugger
- connectivity explorer
- Help integration
- Comprehensive Reference
- Intellisense
- Interoperability tested
- Visual binding
- Binary/xml serialization
- Typesafe (strong typing)/generics
- "Made for .NET"
- Low-ceremony API
- Highly intuitive toolkit
- .NET and COM interfaces are largely identical
- API has high expressive power
- OPC DA Quality Decoder included
- Excel integration
- Perpetual license
- Simple licensing - no hassles with lost licenses "tied" to a hardware
- no config files necessary - just reference an assembly
- Pre-installation of OPC Core Component not required
- Pre-installation of UA Certificate Generator not required
- No need to create/assign a certificate by a manual process
- namespace URIs can be specified, not indices
- any node/item descriptor can specify either a node ID, or browse path, or both
- UA complex data
- NuGet
- app. deployment fully documented, and production installer that actually works (and does not install into undocumented directories etc.)
- stable product build process
- no need to pay early to OPCF to stay closed-source
- slow down UA keep-alive mechanisms when debugging
- method overloads for short code
- clear exception model
- assemblies have strong names
- our installable and all bineries are code-signed (some security environments do not allow any unsigned code; OPCF does not sign).
- see/link with http://www.opclabs.com/products/quickopc/features
- see/link with http://www.opclabs.com/products/quickopc/features/developer-productivity
