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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by skeeter2020 on Friday May 06, 2022 @09:08AM (#31284665)
> End project was to build a control/monitoring application for an electric motor

This is actually a funny use-case for .NET as anything low-level and hardware oriented tended to be harder to do without the libraries, which (if they existed) weren't .NET

Not sure what the hard limitations were that you refer to; VB.NET / C# where always the easiest way to get a windows GUI (WinForms) app running. For industrial computing solutions tended to use Windows CE and Windows XP with COM apps.

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by TrackerFF on Friday May 06, 2022 @10:16AM (#31285392)
This is ages ago - but IIRC, we did it something like this

Motor - VFD - PLC - OPC server - OPC client

The .NET Application worked purely as a GUI read/write data from/to the PLC.

But of course there were other things involved, like database programming, API service, webdev. We made a very, very simple API in ASP.NET I think, and some website in PHP which would just plot the various motor values.

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