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I’ve always published content targeted to mid-level C# developers. However quite a chunk of emails that I receive are from people getting started with C#. Hopefully this article will be a path for these…
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LibPlcTag is a library that I used recently to communicate with Allen Bradley plc. It’s a C++ open source library and it can communicate with most of the Allen Bradley plcs, like Micrologix, CompactLogix,…
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In this article we will see how to record a video and a snapshot from a camera (USB or IP camera), with C# and AForge. AForge is a library used for image acquisition and…
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In the previous articles of this series we saw how to communicate with a single Siemens S7 plc. But it happens frequently to have to communicate with multiple PLCs. In that case, our HMI…
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This article is part of a series that explains how to write an HMI with C# and WPF. Part 1: getting started with MVVM and plc driver Part 2: this article Navigation in WPF…
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This post comes as a response to a recent comment on my YouTube channel. Hello Michele, I’m interested how fast would be your HMI application in case to communicate with 5-10 CPU connections, and…
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This article is part of a series that explains how to write an HMI with C# and WPF. Part 1: this article Part 2: Create multiple pages and navigation with PRISM In this article…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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