Visual Studio New VB Project Wizard

Use the VB Application Wizard for simplified creation of a Visual Basic application.

The Wizard creates a VB Windows application project with small sample code. The sample code browses the installed OPC servers, connects to the selected server and browses the server's items.

Within minutes you have a custom client application that connects to your OPC server.

Action

Description

Project Creation

1) Start Visual Studio and select File - New - Projects
2) select Project Type Visual Basic and select the OPCHDA.NET Client template
3) Enter Project Name and Location, then click OK
The project is created and the small sample code can be compiled and run.

Sample Code

The wizard created sample code does:
- browse and display the installed OPC Servers
- connect to the selected server
- browse and display the server's items

Deployment

To distribute the application you need to copy the files from the BIN subdirectory:
- application.EXE
- application.EXE.CONFIG ( if you use AppReader configuration
- the referenced OPCHDA.NET DLLs