Features

EdgeFrontier Developer Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio provides an extensive design-time environment and a customizable coding environment:

• Features drag-and-drop components used to streamline the process of developing and deploying diverse applications featuring device, system, and network data
• Enables components to be cloned with a single click so that multiple instances of a component can be used simultaneously
• Features single-click, single-entry properties utilizing drop-down lists, tree views, and text boxes
• Allows easy recognition and single-click subscription to component events

• Allows for intuitive creation, modification, and event capturing of EdgeFrontier components for Microsoft Visual Studio
• Utilizes IntelliSense capabilities to automatically complete typing and provide immediate property and method descriptions
• Allows existing EdgeFrontier components for Microsoft Visual Studio to be programmatically cloned or serialized
• Supports all Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 coding languages (VB.NET, C++, C#, and J#)

• Enable connectivity between diverse devices, systems, and networks through communication methods (including TCP/IP, UDP, serial, HTTP, SNMP, WMI, message queue, and web services); support the reading and writing of files and databases; and enable connectivity to systems via third-party and custom application programming interfaces (APIs)
• Serve as a mediator between diverse systems, devices, and networks, including support for protocol/format encoding/decoding and data transformation
• Provide real-time, edge-of-network event processing, including data filtering, correlation, anomaly detection, and notification/alert generation
• Provide policy engine structures for configuration of event or policy-based actions
• Enable distributed processing and event or policy-based actions to be automated throughout the network infrastructure
• Provide an extensible application server for core and edge-of-network computing systems, including routers, servers, gateways, and other computing platforms
• Provide sophisticated network and system management capabilities
• Distribute data as network data, data files (e.g., text, Excel, XML, binary, etc.), and for databases (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, etc.) for use with enterprise systems and interface platforms
• Extend the IP network and IT infrastructure to remote devices, systems, and networks

EdgeFrontier Developer Edition provides a valuable set of tools for developers with advanced requirements who wish to create their own customized, intelligent convergence solutions within an IDE.