This article walks you through the procedure of setting up a development and experimentation environment on Windows, using ElecNetKit with the OpenDSS simulator.
Setting Up a Development Environment on Windows
Navigate to the
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop Download Page, and download the installer.
Follow through the installation procedure. Don't forget to register Visual Studio at some stage - you get temporarily locked out of the environment if you leave it for more than 30 days.
Once Visual Studio is installed, a simulator backend needs to be installed for ElecNetKit. Currently, the only simulator supported by ElecNetKit is
OpenDSS. Go to the OpenDSS download page, download the latest version and follow the installer prompts. Ensure that the default feature set is installed:
OpenDSS Feature Install Set required for use with ElecNetKit
That's it! You've installed everything you need to run network experiments using ElecNetKit.
Now that you've installed a working development environment, you might want to try the simple example Walkthrough: A Minimal Working Example.