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/*
 *  Copyright (C) 2013 Pavel Charvat
 * 
 *  This file is part of IEDExplorer.
 *
 *  IEDExplorer is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  IEDExplorer is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
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 *  along with IEDExplorer.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

IEDExplorer uses Binary Notes ASN.1 software library:

/*
* Copyright 2006 Abdulla G. Abdurakhmanov (abdulla.abdurakhmanov@gmail.com).
* 
* Licensed under the LGPL, Version 2 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
* 
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* 
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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* 
* With any your questions welcome to my e-mail 
* or blog at http://abdulla-a.blogspot.com.
*/


========================  IEDExplorer ========================


The IEDExplorer project has been created in my free time in order to learn the IEC61850 protocol.
The result is the only (as I have seen over Internet) pure .net managed MMS stack (not complete yet)
and a very basic IEC61850 MMS client implementation.

The code is NOT in production quality, written by a non-professional programmer:
- it completely lacks tests
- it uses Binary Notes implementation of MMS ASN.1 encoding/decoding, which is relatively
  slow in the C# flavour, thus not really suitable for a serious usage
- it has a simplistic UI and UI bindings (needs some refactoring)
- IEC61850 is modelled in a very simple manner, and model is incomplete (refactoring needed)
- the MMS client side only has been implemented

On the other side:
- it works (at least for me on some test setups)
- it has already helped me in some situations in debugging 61850 communications
- it has a big potential for improvement
- it can be a free alternative to some commercial test utilities
- it runs under Windows and under Linux/Mono

The project is looking for enthusiastic programmers who want to explore the mysterious
world of IEC61850 protocol.

Rev 0.1 2013/05/29
The first release 0.1 is an "as is" copy of the last development.

Rev 0.2 2013/11/01
The second release 0.2 : some enhacements in using DNS results/IP address. Most recent IP list.

Rev 0.3 2014/03/19
Some changes to make libiec61850 based server communication working.

Rev 0.4 2014/03/21
Reading variables from libiec61850 server working. Accepting reports without variable references.

Rev 0.5 2014/10/24
RP blocks have own tree.
Added NodeRP.cs
Boolean sent with 0x01.
Commands as a structure - working prototype for single commands direct.
Logging level combo.
Inspecting ied without defined lists possible, for example some libiec61850 samples.
Support for reading Arrays.