Sharp7 is a new C# driver to communicate to Siemens S7 Plc. The driver has been written by Davide Nardella, the author of Snap7 library, and it’s retro-compatible with the C# wrapper of Snap7. So if you were using Snap7 and the C# wrapper, you can easily replace both with ...

This article explains how to create dialogs and modal windows in a WPF application that uses dependency injection. We will use services and factories to abstract the creation of windows and MessageBoxes. We will also see how to write unit tests for MVVM navigation. This is the second part of ...

This article explains some approaches to create the architecture for a WPF application when using dependency injection. In particular we will see how to navigate through views and how to deal with dialogs, both windows and system dialogs. This article is divided in 2 parts. Part 1 (this article): Creation ...

One of the interesting fields in industrial automation is real time image processing and computer vision. It’s quite simple to write applications that access to a camera in C#, both with Windows Forms and WPF, and in this article we will see how to connect to a USB camera (or ...

WiX Toolset is a free installer. It is xml-based, which means that instead of a UI you can use a single xml file to create your installation package. There is a wide choice of installers on the market, but I prefer WiX, especially when I need to distribute large applications ...

In this video I explain how to use NModbus to read and write values from Modbus holding registers. This video follows the article “Modbus with C#” and should dissipate the doubts around setting up Modbus and using the functions provided. I’m using a modbus simulator and comport simulator, so it ...