Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 Released

Friday, June 19, 2009

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 Released

Phil Wheat's Knowledge Matters - Robotics Developer Studio R2 just released

“Just in time for BrickWorld this weekend, Release 2 of Robotics Developer Studio has just come out. You can watch the release video here, pick up the express edition at the download center, and visit the updated robotics site off the main Microsoft page.

Oh, and the Standard edition update is available from your MSDN subscription as well!” [GD: Post Leached in Full]

Microsoft Downloads - Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 Express Edition

“Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Express Edition is a freely available .NET-based programming environment for building robotics applications. The Express Edition is fully functional version but has a feature set that better targets the non-professional developer and hobbyist.

Version: 2.1.61.2

Date Published: 6/15/2009

Language: English

Download Size: 97.4 MB - 474.2 MB*

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FrankPr's World of Devices - Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 released

“…If you are asking “So? What’s new?”, please check the release notes. It’s basically a maintainance release focusing on usability, quality, and documentation.

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Microsoft Student Partners - I Robot, Microsoft Robotics Studio 2008 R2

“We’ve announced the availability of the Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2. This new release is an upgrade to the existing 2008 version. It includes the new DSS Log Analyzer tool and enhancements to the Visual Simulation Environment as well as bug fixes and additions to the documentation. You can view the Introductory Video for more information.

The Express Edition of the software is available at no cost from the Downloads Page, or the Academic Edition from DreamSpark or MSDNAA, or downloaded from the MSDN Subscribers Downloads or BizSpark. So if you don’t get it is because you don’t want it.

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New Web Site

The Microsoft Robotics home page, http://www.microsoft.com/robotics, has been completely revised to have a new look and feel and provide updated information…

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There are few cooler things in the world than being able to program robots (IMHO at least ;) And heck, you don’t even need the hardware with RDS (with its support for virtual environments)!