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Creating a New Project

To create a new CFHEADER .NET project in Visual Studio, simply follow these steps:

Open Visual Studio and select “Create a new project”.<html> </html>
Select the project type from one of the project templates. <html> </html>
Give the project a name. <html> </html>
Select additional project options. <html> </html>
Right-click on the project node and select “Manage Nuget Packages…”. <html> </html>
Install the ComfileTech.Cfnet.Cfheader Nuget package. <html> </html>

Write code.

<html> </html> Try the following example:

using ComfileTech.Cfnet.Cfheader;
 
var cfheader0 = Cfheader.Instances[0];
var digitalOutputModule0 = cfheader0.DigitalOutputModules[0];
 
cfheader0.Open();
 
while (true)
{
    // Blink each output in increasing order
    foreach (var channel in digitalOutputModule0.Channels)
    {
        channel.Blink();
    }
 
    // Blink each output in decreasing order
    foreach (var channel in digitalOutputModule0.Channels.Reverse())
    {
        channel.Blink();
    }
}
 
static class Extensions
{
    public static void Blink(this DigitalOutputModule.Channel channel)
    {
        // Toggle the channel's state
        channel.Toggle();
 
        // Delay for 50ms
        Thread.Sleep(50);
 
        // Toggle the channel's state again
        channel.Toggle();
    }
 
    public static void Toggle(this DigitalOutputModule.Channel channel)
    {
        // Toggle state
        channel.State = !channel.State;
 
        // Write the state to the module
        channel.Module.Header.Sync();
    }
}