OPC Studio User's Guide and Reference
UAApplicationElementExtension Class
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OpcLabs.EasyOpcUA Assembly > OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Discovery.Extensions Namespace : UAApplicationElementExtension Class
Contains extension methods to the OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Discovery.UAApplicationElement class.
Syntax
'Declaration
 
<ExtensionAttribute()>
<ComVisibleAttribute(False)>
Public MustInherit NotInheritable Class UAApplicationElementExtension 
'Usage
 
Dim instance As UAApplicationElementExtension
[Extension()]
[ComVisible(false)]
public static class UAApplicationElementExtension 
[Extension()]
[ComVisible(false)]
public ref class UAApplicationElementExtension abstract sealed 
Remarks

This class contains extension methods (info: C#, VB.NET). In languages that have support for extensions methods (such as C# and VB.NET), you can use the extension method as if it were a regular method on the object that is its first parameter. In other languages (such as with Python.NET), you will call the extension as a static method, and pass it the object on which it acts as its first parameter.

 

OPC UA Discovery allows OPC Data Client to find available OPC UA servers, and determine how to make connections to them. There are several approaches to discovery, and they can be combined together to achieve the desired functionality. Clients and servers can be on the same host, on different hosts in the same subnet, or even on completely different locations in an administrative domain.

OPC Data Client provides following kinds of discovery:

It is also possible to access the discovery functionality in a common way, using Generalized OPC UA Discovery.

Flattened and unflattened results

By default, the results (the application element collection) of many of the methods described in this chapter are returned flattened. This means that a single OPC UA application may appear multiple times in the resulting collection, and each time it will have precisely one DiscoveryUriString associated with it.

Alternatively, you can use method overloads with the additional 'flat' argument, and set it true, in order to receive unflattened result. In this case, each OPC UA application will be contained just once in the resulting collection, but it may have one or more discovery URL in its DiscoveryUriStrings property. In this case, do not use the DiscoveryUriString property, because it will contain an empty string if the application has more than one discovery URL.

 

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
   OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA.Discovery.Extensions.UAApplicationElementExtension

Requirements

Target Platforms: .NET Framework: Windows 10 (selected versions), Windows 11 (selected versions), Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2022; .NET: Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows

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