100 % managed .NET component providing real-time data access and easy to use WinForm components.  These components can be integrated into any Visual Studio.NET application.  Free development and unlimited components to each licensed OPC Systems Service.  Data component for easy reading and writing of data.  Label, Button, TextBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, GroupBox, PictureBox, Panel, ListBox, ComboBox, HScrollBar, VScrollBar, and TrackBar .NET components.  Communicate data over your company network and Internet to unlimited remote clients world wide.

Create applications using C#, Visual Basic, and C++. 

Legacy ActiveX Controls

Looking for a .NET component for Visual Studio.NET applications with networking?  A better solution would be OPC Controls.NET or OPC Web Controls.NET.

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Pricing

Single Developer License:.....$ 495.00 US

Site License Development: $ 1,495.00 US

Corporate License:...............$ 2,995.00 US

(Corporate License Includes Source Code in Visual Basic 6.0)

            The OPC Controls ActiveX component is designed to update objects in Visual Basic 6.0 Forms from OPC data.  The component features the implementation of Fast OPC technology developed by Open Automation Software using a multi-threaded ActiveX server.

            The OPC Controls component can update standard parameters of common components of Visual Basic such as Caption, Visible, Enable, ForeColor, BackColor, FillColor, Height, Width, Top, Left, and many other parameters that common controls use.  Data update rates can be as fast as 10 milliseconds with no data loss if the OPC servers that are serving the data can communicate to the hardware at that rate.

            The OPC Controls supports both standard Visual Basic 6.0 components, Global Majic Symbols, and other third party graphic symbols.

            The OPC Controls component automatically recognizes many custom and standard components.  Click here to view the default list of controls and parameters that are selectable.  If a control you are interested in having updated is missing from the list, contact us and we will add it to the software at no cost to you.

The setup of the control is done easily by dropping the OPC Controls component onto the Visual Basic Form and then associating OPC items with parameters of the controls to update.  The OPC item associations are defined in a Microsoft Excel compatible file that can be modified in the OPC Controls property page or from within Microsoft Excel.  No programming is required at all to accomplish the associations.  An example to display a numeric value in a form is to associate Caption of a Label control to an OPC item.  You can also optionally provide your own format of the update string in the format “0.0000”.  Click here to see an example of the item configuration file. 

During runtime the Label control dynamically update at your desired Update Rate.  The default Update Rate is 100 milliseconds, but the function of the software allows Update Rates as low as 10 milliseconds with no lost data and extremely fast performance.  The OPC Controls ActiveX component connects to a multi-threaded ActiveX server to receive events containing all changes in the OPC items.

The properties page of the OPC Controls component makes it easy to browse OPC servers for OPC items available for connection, and to browse the list of available components on the container form along with their parameters for the control type selected.

The OPC Controls component can also be used to read and write values directly to OPC servers with the simple to use methods GetValue and WriteValue.  This provides maximum flexibility to integrate data within your Visual Basic application.  The OPC Controls component can automatically control the Enable and Interval parameters of a Timer object in Visual Basic, which can then be used to execute your own custom Visual Basic Functions and Subroutines if desired.

After the development license of OPC Controls has been activated you can build unlimited number of applications.  The applications that are built with the development license can be distributed for use with no additional licenses required.  There are No Runtime Fees for the OPC Controls component.

The OPC Controls component will work with any OPC Server that is 1.0a or 2.0x compliant.  Tag browsing is also supported in the control and manual entry of server name ,OPC item, and OPC Access Path is provided for those servers that do not provide tag browsing.

Future versions of OPC Controls will support other ActiveX containers such as Microsoft FrontPage.  With this implementation, web pages can be built with HMI data easily and the Internet Explorer becomes your screen browser.

Updates to OPC Controls are provided to customers at no cost for one year from the date of purchase.  These updates can be downloaded directly from www.opcsystems.com.