Re: [Bacnet-developers] BACnet Stack and C#

[Ivan V. <iv...@op...>]

Hi Vasek,

Your experiences sound interesting. Are you able to share the resulting
code? 

Regards,

Ivan

From: Václav Lukáš [mailto:vac...@gm...] 
Sent: Thursday, 31 October 2013 8:45 AM
To: Discussion for developers of the BACnet stack
Subject: Re: [Bacnet-developers] BACnet Stack and C#

 

I have done something similar back in 2007 when we had to deliver Windows
service that serves as gateway to some other devices. After tuning some
issues (callbacks between managed/unmanaged code, marshalling, etc) it has
become very stable and useful application. But I would not recommend doing
any serious development of C# application on top of recent bacnet stack
because:

 

- bacnet stack architecture is way too different from what you would
expect/need

- marshalling and creating C++ wrapper will take you as much time as
creating managed serializers/deserializers

- you won't probably use most of bacnet stack source code since only usable
stuff is actually encoding/decoding procedures

 

Vasek

 

2013/10/26 Julien B. <ant...@us...
<mailto:ant...@us...> >


> Can anyone point me in the right direction to get started using the
> stack with C#?  Any help is greatly appreciated.
It greatly depend on what degree of control over the bacnet-stack you
expect to have in c#, it you just need to invoke some property-reading
and writing, you might easily interface your C# classes with a custom
C++/CLI classes library of yours, linked with the unmodified core
bacnet-stack.

That's what I did for our customers a few years ago now they are still
pretty happy.

The only tricky part is to turn the native "array" / "lists" of objects
into the pretty managed C# objects.. and vice-versa..

> Have a look at the BACnet Browser at SourceForge
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacnetbrowser
.. we had a look at this project in 2010 but sadly it was not very
stable (and just not working with the controllers we had to ). Maybe it
is now better -- or maybe the code inside is interesting.



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