Benefits

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.

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
• OPC XML-DA merged with OPC DA
• see/link with http://www.opclabs.com/products/quickopc/opc-specifications/unified-architecture/alarms-conditions