Kepware ClientAce

Product Overvie

OPC-enable your .NET applications with ClientAce. ClientAce provides a drag-and-drop interface to quickly and easily attach OPC items to any property or custom control built in Visual Studio. Furthermore, its full-featured .NET API provides effortless access to OPC UA, OPC DA, and OPC XML-DA server applications without previous knowledge of the OPC standard.

Features

DA Junction Control

The DA Junction control is a customized .NET control that enables Visual Basic .NET and C# programmers to easily develop OPC client applications that access any OPC UA, OPC DA, and XML-DA servers. No detailed knowledge of OPC interfaces is required. The DA Junction will perform the connection handling procedure between your custom client application and the OPC server, as well as monitor and reconnect when necessary.

DA JUNCTION FEATURES:

The component completely covers the connection handling procedure for one or multiple OPC servers.
Conversion of OPC data from different OPC Data Access interfaces into .NET data types.

Server Browser Control

The Server Browser control provides functionality to browse OPC Data Access servers on local and remote machines. The Server URL is returned in an event to be used in the application for establishing connections and data acquisition.

Channel Settings Control

The Channel Settings control provides functionality to view and make certain changes to the properties of a channel and devices within an OPC server provided by Kepware. The ability to write to system-level tags must be enabled in the server.

Item Browser Control

The Item Browser control provides functionality to browse tags/items in an OPC Data Access server on local or remote machines. Items/tags are selected and their information is returned to the application. The selections are used to request updated data from the server.

Server State Control

The Server State control provides functionality to view the properties of a Kepware OPC server project. The properties include the number of clients connected to the server, the total number of tags added by the clients, and the total number of tags that are actively being polled.

ClientAce .NET API

The ClientAce .NET Application Programming Interface (API) provides users of languages such as C# and Visual Basic .NET with a simple, intuitive and optimized class library to quickly develop OPC client applications for accessing OPC servers.

API FEATURES:

A simple, intuitive .NET interface.
The OPC UA, DA, and XML-DA interfaces have been simplified down to the major functions.
No detailed knowledge of the different OPC interfaces is required.
The API covers the different base technologies of OPC, for example, COM and DCOM.
The API completely covers the connection handling to one OPC Server.
The development of OPC Client applications with C# or Visual Basic .NET becomes very simple using ClientAce.
Conversion of OPC data from different OPC Data Access interfaces into .NET data types.
Fast and simple search for OPC COM Servers, both local and remote.
High performance and optimized Client-Server communication by using kernel functionality implemented in C++.

Licensing

Design-time license per development seat
Unlimited applications with each license, per development seat
First year of Support and Maintenance is required for ClientAce purchases
Applications are subject to a 1-hour demo timeout (with reminder pop-ups)
After purchase of a license, the application can be signed to avoid the timeout & pop-ups
The signing utility is included with ClientAce

Free Tools With ClientAce Install

C# and VB.NET sample client applications
1-hour demo