OPC adding OPC Sever to C# application using using NI

[kobbike]

My system is running C# application.

I would like to add OPC server capabilities (not Client) - I would like to serve other (external) OPC clients.

Is it possible to use NationalInstruments.Net for that? If yes - How (is there any example)? If not - is there any other NI tool that can be used for that?

Thanks

[elcalverado]

Hi kobbike,

NI has a software called NI OPC Servers for hosting data from PLCs and communicating with OPC clients over the OPC DA protocol. However, it is a standalone configuration-based software. So you would set it up and run it apart from your C# application. Since an OPC server has to know how to communicate with all sorts of different PLCs, it generally doesn't make sense to create your own server in your application.

Jordan