Microsoft outlook is hugely popular email application being used across so many organizations. There can be a no. of reasons why one would like to develop a plugin for it or integrate it with other applications. Microsoft makes it really easy to customize almost all aspect of Outlook using a Read more…
The CAPE-OPEN specifications are a set of standard interfaces that allows for an easy inter-operability between two process modelling environments and components. Let us say that we have written a custom implementation of a unit operation. There was no standard and uniform way of interfacing that unit operation with different process Read more…
If you want two network devices to talk to each other, then developing a TCP server and client is as low as you can get without blowing your brains off. It is really helpful in many scenarios. Come in handy when all other application layer protocols like HTTP, FTP etc Read more…
Recently I faced a challenge of developing an excel plugin that can interact with a Java calculation server. The Java server was able to dynamically load JARs that contained all the calculations and make them available for invocation through a REST endpoints. If you wish to develop a Java server Read more…
We can easily develop cool XLA/XLAM addins using Excel’s native VBA editor, however, they are not enough in complex scenarios. In such scenarios, we would like to take full advantage of the .Net framework. Now there are several options when it comes to developing Excel addins using .Net and Visual Read more…
Modbus over TCP is nothing but the Modbus protocol over a TCP/IP interface running on Ethernet. Therefore all device addressing and routing is done through the standard IP addresses while the application protocol remains the same. In case of Modbus protocol, only one device in the network usually acts as Read more…