The programming port of all the FP PLC’s support OPEN MEWTOCOL-COM. This is very useful when you want to monitor PLC values/bits or to set PLC values or bits via your COMPUTER. You can use any language such as Basic, C, Pascal, Assembler or even if other suppliers of PLCs can send ASCII strings, they can talk to our PLCs to exchange data.
An example to accompany PCW March 2004 Visual Programming Hands On.
To use, open the solution in the SchoolApp folder.
April 2004: Now revised to add New and Delete options.
Tim Anderson
http://www.itwriting.com/pcw/
Samples are organized by chapter, and then by "application" or example name. You should open a project in Visual Studio .NET through the .sln (solution) file.
Note that Visual Studio .NET automatically creates various temporary and debugging files in the obj and bin sub-directory for each project. The actual uncompiled code is only the .vb files that are contained in the root project directory.
