​.NET Customization Architecture

The introduction of a customization capability using Microsoft .NET technology has opened up a whole new world of customization and is particularly relevant for the integration of AVEVA products with other customer systems. .NET API's provide access to various aspects of the product including Graphical User Interface, Database and Geometry.

As part of AVEVA's strategy of 'continual progression' the .NET customization capability has been introduced in such a way that it can be used alongside the existing PML based customization. Through the use of PML.NET, an enhancement to PML which allows the PML programmer to call .NET code, customization which utilizes the strengths of .NET compiled code and PML can be achieved.

The above diagram illustrates the two new methods of customization using .NET technology. The first is via the concept of a .NET Addin and the second using PML.NET. Both methods provide a mechanism whereby a .NET assembly (dll) can be dynamically loaded into a module at runtime.