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=        DAQfast Modbus Library for Windows             =
=                               DAQ-LIBMB-WIN Ver.2.10  =
=                                    CONTEC Co., Ltd.   =
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- Contents
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 Introduction
 Installation
 The history of version-up


- Introduction
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  Thank you for purchasing this product.

  DAQ-LIBMB-WIN is a library for Modbus communication on a Windows PC.
  The free software library "libmodbus" is used as a library for Modbus communication.

  This Readme contains supplementary explanations.
  Please refer to the Online Help (DAQ-LIBMB-WIN.chm) for how to use it.


- Installation
==============
  For the installation procedure of the device driver and the development environment (sample programs, etc.),
  refer to the following help file after extracting the download file.
      Help\ENG\DAQ-LIBMB-WIN.chm


- Career at version up
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 Ver.2.10
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  - Add support device
    Support device: CPSR-ET7015, CPSR-ET7017, CPSR-ET7018ZS, CPSR-ET7026,
                    CPSR-ET7028, CPSR-ET7044, CPSR-ET7051, CPSR-ET7052,
                    CPSR-ET7053, CPSR-ET7060, CPSR-ET7066
                    CPSR-ET7217, CPSR-ET7224
                    CPSR-M7015G, CPSR-M7017G, CPSR-M7018ZGS, CPSR-M7028DG,
                    CPSR-M7051DG, CPSR-M7052DG, CPSR-M7053DG, CPSR-M7055UDG,
                    CPSR-M7060PDG, CPSR-M7066PDG
  - Add support OS
    Support OS:
             Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024
             Microsoft Windows Server 2025
  - Enable [Nullable] in the project settings for Visual C# (.NET) samples
  - Revise installer user interface
  - Fixed a bug that the modbus_set_bits_from_byte function in the Python header file was incorrectly defined.
  - Added modbus_set_bits_from_byte function declaration to the VB header file because it was missing.

 Ver.2.00
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  - Add support device
    Support device: CPSN-MCB271-1-081
  - Checked the operation on Windows 11 24H2.
  - End of support for the following development language
                      Microsoft Visual Basic .NET  .NET6
                      Microsoft Visual C#          .NET6

 Ver.1.90
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  - Add support development language
    Support language: Python 3.13
  - End of support for the following development language
                      Python 3.8

 Ver.1.80
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  - Add support application framework
    Support application framework: .NET8

 Ver.1.70
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  - Checked the operation on Windows 11 23H2.
  - Add support development language
    Support language: Python 3.12

 Ver.1.60
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  - Checked the operation on Windows 10 22H2.

 Ver.1.50
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  - Add support development language
    Support language: Python 3.11
  - Checked the operation on Windows 11 22H2.

 Ver.1.40
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  - Update used library
    Library used:     libmodbus v3.1.7
  - Add support development language
    Support language: Microsoft Visual Basic .NET  2022
                      Microsoft Visual C#          2022
                      Microsoft Visual C++ (MFC)   2022
  - End of support for the following development languages
                      Microsoft Visual Basic .NET  2013
                      Microsoft Visual C#          2013
                      Microsoft Visual C++ (MFC)   2013

 Ver.1.30
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  - Add support OS
    Support OS:       Microsoft Windows Server 2022  (64bit)

 Ver.1.20
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  - Add support development language
    Support language: Python 3.10
  - Checked the operation on Windows 10 21H2.
  - Add support OS
    Support OS:       Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021
                      Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2019 LTSC
                      Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSB 2016

 Ver.1.10
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  - Checked the operation on Windows 11

 Ver.1.00
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  - First release