COM and Excel Development

In order to deploy your COM or Excel application developed with OPC Studio on Windows manually, follow the steps below:

1. Check that proper version of Microsoft .NET Framework is installed, and if it is not, install it. See QuickOPC Required .NET Runtimes or OPC Wizard Required .NET Runtimes for details.
2. Run the OPC Studio Full installation program, selecting “Custom install” choice and later “Production installation” type. Alternatively, run the OPC Studio Production installer instead. The main purpose of this step is to obtain the set of OPC Studio components (assemblies and configuration files); if you have them available by other means, you can skip this step.
3. Copy the OPC Studio components (assemblies and configuration files) from the Components\Opclabs.QuickOpc\net472 directory to their target locations for your application.
4. Perform additional actions (such as the assembly registrations) as described with the respective files in Installing COM Components and Type Libraries . This might have been performed by the installer in Step 2 above, but needs to be re-done if you have moved the assemblies from their original locations.
5. Perform any steps needed to install your own application.
6. If you are using a license key located in the Registry License Store, run the License Manager from the Start menu or the Launcher application, and install the runtime license. Alternative, use command line and the LMConsole utility for this.
7. With OPC UA only: Run your application once with the administrative privileges, giving it a chance to create its client or server instance certificate (this step is only needed if you do not provide the application instance certificate in some other way).

.NET Development

In .NET (.NET Framework, .NET 6 or 8), manual deployment steps are more or less indistinguishable from what is considered as creating an "automated deployment". For this reason, refer to Automated deployment, roll your own for the deployment steps.