A new application programming interface (API) has been released to facilitate the development of Microsoft .NET applications that interface with SIC Marking E8 controllers. The API implements the SIC Marking serial binary protocol over RS2332, is provided as a .NET 2.0 framework assembly and can be used in any of the .NET languages such as VB and C#.

Using this API developers can easily build supervisory control applications to select engraving programming files, set program files variable values, set global variable values, issue Run commands and much more without needing to understand the details of the binary protocol. The binary protocol is implemented to use a checksum on all transmitted commands to ensure data integrity.

The API can be downloaded from the API products section. The download contains the complete API that can be installed and run in a fully functional timed demonstration mode. The download includes several example applications to get developers quickly up to speed.