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OPC Bookshelf
A categorized list of suggested reading material is provided. Recent
updates are highlighted.
Most of the books listed may be purchased directly from this page,
in association with Amazon.com.
Prices quoted are publishers' recommended prices for the US.
If you can't find what you want here, you can search Amazon.com.
And please mail us if you think
we're missing an important title.
OPC and Industrial Control
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OPC Unified Architecture
Wolfgang Mahnke, Stefan-Helmut Leitner and Matthias Damm /
Springer
300 pages
ISBN: 3540688986
79.95 USD
Buy at Amazon.com price
Gives an easy to understand introduction to UA and explains
the concepts of the standard and other relevant topics not
directly addressed by the standard.
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Software for Automation: Architecture, Integration, and
Security
Jonas Berge / ISA
325 pages
ISBN: 1556178980
99.00 USD
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Includes coverage of OPC DA, HDA and AE, as well as sections
on OPC troubleshooting, DCOM setup, the Windows XP firewall,
etc.
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OPC - Fundamentals, Implementation, and
Application
Frank Iwanitz and Jürgen Lange / Hüthig
251 pages, 1 CD
ISBN: 3778529048
58.00 EUR (or 90.00 USD inc. p&p)
Buy
from Amazon.de
Buy
from Softing
Third, expanded edition of the definitive OPC handbook. New
topics include extended XML-DA coverage, OPC UA, and compliance
testing/certification. Highly recommended.
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OPC - Grundlagen, Implementierung und Anwendung
Frank Iwanitz and Jürgen Lange / Hüthig
270 pages, 1 CD
ISBN: 377852903X
46.00 EUR
Buy
from Amazon.de
Buy from Softing
German version of the above.
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Introduction to Industrial Controls and
Manufacturing
Edward W. Kamen / Academic Press
230 pages
ISBN: 0123948509
78.95 USD
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Contains a chapter on equipment interfacing, including an
introduction to OPC, the GEM standard, fieldbuses, and
Ethernet.
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also...
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OPC, Le Livre - Votre guide dans l'univers
d'OPC
Michel Condemine / 4CE Industry
Includes CD
75.50 EUR
Buy from 4CE
Industry
French OPC book. Includes coverage of the main specifications,
compliance testing, using OPC with embedded platforms, case
studies.
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.NET
.NET Framework and CLR
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Understanding .NET: A Tutorial and Analysis
David Chappell / Addison Wesley
368 Pages
ISBN: 0201741628
34.99 USD (recommended)
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Introducing Microsoft .NET, Third Edition
David S. Platt / Microsoft Press
352 Pages
ISBN: 0735619182
29.99 USD (recommended)
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.NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition
Thuan Thai and Hoang Q. Lam / O'Reilly
363 Pages
ISBN: 0596005059
29.95 USD (recommended)
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Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming
Jeffrey Richter / Microsoft Press
500 Pages
ISBN: 0735614229
49.99 USD (recommended)
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Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language
Runtime
Don Box with Chris Sells / Addison Wesley
432 Pages
ISBN: 0201734117
54.99 USD (recommended)
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C#
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Inside C#, Second Edition
Tom Archer and Andrew Whitechapel / Microsoft Press
912 Pages, 1 CD
ISBN: 0735616485
49.99 USD (recommended)
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Programming in the Key of C#
Charles Petzold / Microsoft Press
300 Pages
ISBN: 0735618003
29.99 USD (recommended)
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Programming Windows with C#
Charles Petzold / Microsoft Press
1200 Pages, 1 CD
ISBN: 0735613702
59.99 USD (recommended)
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Windows Forms Programming in C#
Chris Sells / Addison Wesley
681 Pages
ISBN: 0321116208
54.99 USD (recommended)
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.NET and COM
Interoperability
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.NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide
Adam Nathan / Sams
1608 Pages
ISBN: 067232170X
59.99 USD (recommended)
Buy at Amazon.com price
It is difficult to overstate just how good this book is. A
huge amount of information is presented in a very readable style,
and much of this information would be difficult to find from any
other source.
OPC is, for the time being, a COM-based technology, yet the
ability to access OPC interfaces and data from .NET applications
is becoming increasingly important. Bridging between OPC and .NET
is a typical example of the kind of problem which this book sets
out to solve, and there is surely no better resource for anyone
working in this area.
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COM and .NET Interoperability
Andrew Troelson / APress
816 Pages
ISBN: 1590590112
59.95 USD (recommended)
Buy at Amazon.com price
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Web Services
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.NET Web Services: Architecture and
Implementation
Keith Ballinger / Addison Wesley
352 Pages
ISBN: 0321113594
54.99 USD (recommended)
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Understanding Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and
UDDI
Eric Newcomer / Addison Wesley
368 Pages
ISBN: 0201750813
44.99 USD (recommended)
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A very good introduction to Web Services technologies.
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Web Services: A Manager's Guide
Anne Thomas Manes / Addison Wesley
352 Pages
ISBN: 0321185773
39.99 USD (recommended)
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Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer's
Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More
Aaron Skonnard and Martin Gudgin / Addison Wesley
402 Pages
ISBN: 0201740958
39.99 USD (recommended)
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An excellent tutorial and reference. You will learn more, and
faster, from this book than from any number of books up to three
times bigger (and three times as costly).
This book is also available as a free electronic
download.
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Essential XML: Beyond Markup
Don Box et al / Addison Wesley
368 Pages
ISBN: 0201709147
34.95 USD (recommended)
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As co-author of the SOAP specification, Don Box is well
qualified to present the key aspects of XML, including SOAP
itself.
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HTTP: The Definitive Guide
David Gourley and Brian Totty / O'Reilly
656 Pages
ISBN: 1565925092
44.95 USD (recommended)
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An excellent guide to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol,
fundamental to SOAP.
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also...
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Effective XML
Elliotte Rusty Harold / Addison Wesley
336 Pages
ISBN: 0321150406
44.99 USD (recommended)
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COM and DCOM
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Essential COM
Don Box / Addison Wesley
440 Pages
ISBN: 0201634465
49.99 USD (recommended)
Buy at Amazon.com price
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Effective COM - 50 Ways to Improve Your COM and
MTS-based Applications
Don Box et al / Addison Wesley
208 Pages
ISBN: 0201379686
44.95 USD (recommended)
Buy at Amazon.com price
This concise book is a real gem. Even the most experienced COM
programmer will find many nuggets of wisdom within these
pages.
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Development Tools
Visual C++
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Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Deluxe Learning Edition
Microsoft Press
608 Pages, 1 CD
ISBN: 0735619085
119.99 USD (recommended)
Buy at Amazon.com price
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Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start
Kate Gregory / Sams
336 Pages
ISBN: 0672326000
34.99 USD (recommended)
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Introduction to MFC Programming with Visual C++
Richard M. Jones / Prentice Hall PTR
300 Pages
ISBN: 0130166294
34.99 USD (recommended)
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Active Template Library
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Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL 3.0
Andrew Troelsen / Wordware
697 Pages, 1 CD
ISBN: 1556227043
49.95 USD (recommended)
Buy at Amazon.com price
Most OPC toolkits are built around Microsoft's Active
Template Library. This book and the next are probably the most
helpful on the subject.
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ATL Internals
Brent E. Rector et al / Addison Wesley
656 Pages
ISBN: 0201695898
59.99 USD (recommended)
Buy at Amazon.com price
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Delphi
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Mastering Delphi 7
Marco Cantu / Sybex
992 Pages, 1 CD
ISBN: 078214201X
59.99 USD (recommended)
Buy at Amazon.com price
We know it's a controversial recommendation, but our first
choice for OPC client programming using the custom OPC interfaces
is Borland Delphi.
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Delphi 6 Developer's Guide
Xavier Pacheco et al / Sams
1200 Pages, 1 CD
ISBN: 0672321157
64.99 USD (recommended)
Buy at Amazon.com price
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