UA-.NETStandard/Docs

OPC UA .NET Standard stack documentation

Here is a list of available documentation for different topics:

UA Core stack related

• OPC UA Profiles and Facets - Overview of supported OPC UA profiles, facets, security policies, and transport protocols.
• About .NET platform support, Nuget packages and versioning.
• How X.509 Certificates are used in the certificate stores.
• Using the Reverse Connect for the UA-TCP transport.
• Support for the TransferSubscriptions service set.
• Improved support for Logging with ILogger and EventSource.
• Support for WellKnownRoles & RoleBasedUserManagement.
• Support for ECC Certificates.
• Working with ComplexTypes - Custom structures and enumerations.
• Client-based NodeSet Export - Export server address space to NodeSet2 XML.
• Custom NodeSet2 workflow - Recommended workflow for ModelDesign, ModelCompiler, and runtime instantiation.

Reference application related

• Reference Client documentation for configuration of the console reference client using parameters.
• Reference Server documentation for running against CTT.
• Provisioning Mode for secure certificate provisioning and initial server configuration.
• Using the Container support of the Reference Server in Visual Studio 2026 and for local testing.

Starting with version 1.5.375.XX the Windows Forms reference client & reference server were moved to the OPC UA .NET Standard Samples repository.

For the PubSub support library

• The PubSub library with samples.
• The ConsoleReferencePublisher documentation.
• The ConsoleReferenceSubscriber documentation.