- Adds true support for 64bit double / LReal datatype.
- Set old Types.Single and Types.Double to obselete. Both class names use .NET types instead of S7 type names, contrary to all other types.
- Remove already obsoleted conversion from DWord to Real. Why is this even necessary?
For users caring about converting from DWord, they can still convert to single. But unless we get LWord support, there won't be a direct conversion to double/LReal.
- Adjust unit tests by removing rounding, testing directly double read/writes.
There is quite a bit of breaking changes at least in the automated Struct and object functions which automatically translate .NET types to appropriate S7 types.
My consideration was that if we ever want to support 64bit types, there is no way against breaking those existing incorrect conversions from 64bit .NET double to 32 bit S7 Real variables.
This requires reference types that can be null to be annotated by a ? operator, similar to value types.
This gives the advantage that the compiler can warn against any null dereference exceptions, of which this commits elimits a few.
To make the underlying protocol implementation not any more complicated and to eliminate existing problems, and not that precise error reporting, I replaced some return null statements with explicit Exceptions. This lead to the assumption that those core protocoll functions always return non-null objects if they do not throw, making the PLC code simpler.
Adjust some NotConnected tests to look for explicit PlcException instead of NullReferenceException.
* Refactor PLCAddress
- Change fields into properties
- Apply PascalCase naming to all properties
- Make Parse public static with out parameters
* Support creating DataItem from string
* Rename PlcAddress.Address to StartByte
Revert back to using Stream/TcpClient. High performance stuff is moved
to highperformancesockets branch. I think this is interesting, but i also
feel that this is premature optimization. I doubth that this will be a
performance bottleneck ofr the forseeable future.
This reverts commit 1b34716a30.
