OpenSCADA Development Blog

The new projekt Naraka (alias OpenSCADA .NET) is the .NET equivalent of project Atlantis. As promised after the release 0.6.0 of project Atlantis we will see some fun with the .NET platform. The ICE framework made it quite easy to provide access from .NET to the already exisiting Java Components from project Atlantis. The result for today is a class library including OpenSCADA DA Client functionality on the one side and a little DA Client Sample which was created mostly with the Forms Editor of “Visual C# Express”.

To see the preview just follow the link with IE. Of course using Firefox, Safari, [your browser here] is not a big deal. But the tight integration of .NET into IE makes it a bit more comfortable. Since this is not a release but a preview it should be fine Anyway you can download a seperate source and/or binary package here.

In order to compile the source yourself you will need some IDE that can load the project file. It can be opened with Visual C# 2005 Express and SharpDevelop 2.0 (or 2.1). You will also need the ICE framwork installed which can be obtained from ZeroC.

Since this is only a small client, no server functionality is included for testing, like the OpenSCADA RCP Client which embeds some test servers. Therefore the client application connects to a test server running in the internet on “openscada.org”. The client will open a TCP connection on port 10001 in order to connect to the server.