Control System Works 1.0.813

Control System Works 1.0.813 is designed as a useful Microsoft .NET-based framework for building HMI/SCADA/EMI/process control solutions.

See how Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies and Microsoft .NET can be a solid basement for building a scalable, flexible, robust and graphically impressive web-based applications for industrial automation and process control.

Control System Works (CS Works for short) leverages the power of Microsoft Silverlight - platform and browser-independent RIA framework that can make your application run on a variety of different devices and desktop operating systems without any modifications.

CS Works offers a modular, service-oriented, open architecture based on Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) technology, that allows customized distributed solutions to be implemented without writing a single line of code.

CS Works consists of two major parts: server framework and client framework.

• CS Works server framework is a set of highly customizable server-side components that:
• • provide access to arbitrary data sources through a simple yet powerful pluggable provider model
  • perform live data, alarm and historical data processing
  • allow developers to create custom data processing components
  • Server framework functionality is exposed to custom data processing components through web services and WCF. All configuration settings are stored in the correspondent config files and can be easily manipulated from applications or scripts. Server framework has components that perform data stream multiplexing, giving a lot of possibilities for redundancy and partitioning. Architecture section has some diagrams that may help you understand how CS Works server framework components interact with each other.
• CS Works client framework is a set of Microsoft Silverlight-based components that:
• • perform data exchange with CS Works server components through web services
    
  • implement some useful graphics controls (tanks, numeric displays, alarm summaries etc).
  • Application developers can use CS Works client framework when building zero-administration Silverlight clients for CS Works server-based solutions. Microsoft Silverlight with it's powerful graphics engine and unlimited possibilities for writing custom components is the hosting environment for CS Works-powered client applications.

Major Features:

1. Operators to supervise industrial automation process from many compatible platforms;
2. Plant managers to view production operations using a web browser from remote locations;
3. Industrial system integrators to create high-availability industrial automation solutions that use data from a variety of sources (PLC, OPC, database);
4. Application developers to create contemporary, fully scalable and animated web graphics for process visualization taking advantage of existing third party components available on the market today;
5. Analysts to use their favorite sophisticated tools for alarm and historian data analysis;
6. Casual users to access HMI screens without client software to install or maintain.
7. Open system with unlimited customization capabilities
8. Powerful graphics;
   
9. Works across network boundaries and firewalls;
   
10. Zero administration client;
    
11. Rich and transparent configuration capabilities;
    
12. High-availability.

• Fixed a bug in SerializablePairList that messed up template parameter transfer
• Added SQL LiveData Provider, tested with SQLite and MS SQL Server
• No more third party TreeView control in alarm summary
• Added support for integer data items on the client
• Added support for all major .NET integer data types 

• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Silverlight 2.0 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Silverlight 2.0