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== Costs ==
== Costs ==
* {{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.}}
* {{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.}}
* Perpetual license
== API Design ==
* CLS-compliant
* "Made for .NET"
* method overloads for short code
* clear exception model


== Developer Friendliness ==
== Developer Friendliness ==
* debugger: does not show unnecessary private fields
* Help integration
* Intellisense
* slow down UA keep-alive mechanisms when debugging
== Goodies ==
* formatting feature
* 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).




== Notices ==
== Notices ==
* CLS-compliant
* data type inference in OPC UA Writes
* data type inference in OPC UA Writes
* formatting feature
* debugger: does not show unnecessary private fields
* automatically adjusts UA timing to debugger
* automatically adjusts UA timing to debugger
* connectivity explorer
* connectivity explorer
* Help integration
* Comprehensive Reference
* Comprehensive Reference
* Intellisense
* Interoperability tested
* Interoperability tested
* Visual binding
* Visual binding
* Binary/xml serialization
* Binary/xml serialization
* Typesafe (strong typing)/generics
* Typesafe (strong typing)/generics
* "Made for .NET"
* Low-ceremony API
* Low-ceremony API
* Highly intuitive toolkit
* Highly intuitive toolkit
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* OPC DA Quality Decoder included
* OPC DA Quality Decoder included
* Excel integration
* Excel integration
* Perpetual license
* Simple licensing - no hassles with lost licenses "tied" to a hardware
* Simple licensing - no hassles with lost licenses "tied" to a hardware
* no config files necessary - just reference an assembly
* no config files necessary - just reference an assembly
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* app. deployment fully documented, and production installer that actually works (and does not install into undocumented directories etc.)
* app. deployment fully documented, and production installer that actually works (and does not install into undocumented directories etc.)
* stable product build process
* 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
* see/link with http://www.opclabs.com/products/quickopc/features/developer-productivity
* see/link with http://www.opclabs.com/products/quickopc/features/developer-productivity
* OPC XML-DA merged with OPC DA
* OPC XML-DA merged with OPC DA
* see/link with http://www.opclabs.com/products/quickopc/opc-specifications/unified-architecture/alarms-conditions
* see/link with http://www.opclabs.com/products/quickopc/opc-specifications/unified-architecture/alarms-conditions

Revision as of 14:06, 28 January 2018


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.
  • Perpetual license

API Design

  • CLS-compliant
  • "Made for .NET"
  • method overloads for short code
  • clear exception model


Developer Friendliness

  • debugger: does not show unnecessary private fields
  • Help integration
  • Intellisense
  • slow down UA keep-alive mechanisms when debugging


Goodies

  • formatting feature
  • 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).


Notices

  • data type inference in OPC UA Writes
  • automatically adjusts UA timing to debugger
  • connectivity explorer
  • Comprehensive Reference
  • Interoperability tested
  • Visual binding
  • Binary/xml serialization
  • Typesafe (strong typing)/generics
  • 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
  • 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
You can specify namespace URIs for OPC UA nodes
... and not namespaces indices. This is important, because the server can can change namespace indices between sessions. Other toolkits largely ignore this, and even give you examples where the node is specified with a hard-coded namespace index. Proper way of doing this is to look up the namespace index that corresponds to namespace URI, but that complicates the user code a lot. QuickOPC does this for you.
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