Welcome to the AF SDK Getting Started Guide

Welcome to the AF SDK Getting Started Guide! The intended audience for this guide are software engineers, developers, and information architects who want to build .NET applications using the Asset Framework Software Development Kit (AF SDK). It introduces entry‑level concepts with real‑world examples.

This guide contains a set of C# programming exercises, along with complete solution code, that demonstrate how to perform the following tasks:

• Connect to Data Archive

• Access PI System models and data

• Search for assets

• Read and write data

• Build AF hierarchies

• Work with event frames