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

[Václav L. <vac...@gm...>]

I am afraid I can't publish all the source code that can be built, but if
you need help with certain issue please feel free to ask.

My wrapper had all of the entities modelled in C# and translated via C++
DLL w/bacnet stack into BACnet APDUs. Both ethernet and BIP connectivity
was supported, intrinsic alarming and algorithmic event reporting was
implemented.

Although the result is stable and robust, I would not recommend it for any
future development since time needed to implement new features is extremely
high comparing to doing the same in C++.

Vasek


2013/10/30 Ivan Vernot <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...>****
>
>
> > 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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