Benefits: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:01, 27 January 2018

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.

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.

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).

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 == 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.
+* {{Style=Highlight|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 ==