The Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 July CTP now available for download

Microsoft Downloads - Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Community Technical Preview (CTP) July

“Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 enables hobbyists, academics and commercial developers to create robotics applications targeting entertainment, educational, home, commercial, or industrial segments.

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio supports a broad set of robotics platforms by either running directly on the platform or controlling it from a Windows or Windows Embedded device through a communication channel such as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth®.

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Microsoft Robotics Development Center - Welcome to July CTP of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008

“Welcome to the July Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008. This is the 2^nd CTP and like the previous, which was released in April, this one has a lot of new features and improvements. Some of the features are mentioned here but there are many more. For a complete list, please see Whats New?.

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New Samples and Tutorials …

Simulation and 64-bit Machines …

Visual Studio Project Wizards …

Much Faster DSS Proxy Generation …

Embedded Visual Simulation Environment

In addition to having a stand-alone UI, the Visual Simulation Environment can now be embedded in other applications. This enables other applications to show the Visual Simulation Environment as part of their application.

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Microsoft Robotics Development Center - What's New in July CTP of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008?

“Here is a detailed list of what's new and changed in July CTP of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008.

Samples and Tutorials

Documentation for samples and tutorials is included in the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio help which is available from the Start menu after installation.

• DSS Node Discovery using UPnP: A new UPnP sample illustrates how to use UPnP for discovering DSS nodes across a UPnP network.
• Transport Extensibility: PipeTransport and PipeTransportHost are two new tutorials on how to write your own transport and load it in your custom host. In addition you will also find the UdpTransport and UdpTransport as additional transport samples.
• LINQ: Service Tutorial 12 shows how to subscribe to the Directory Service using a LINQ Filter and how to receive filtered notifications.
• Silverlight: The XBox Controller Viewer sample shows support for use of interactive Silverlight-based UI
• Embedded Simulation Environment: The sample EmbeddedSim sample shows how to embed the Visual Simulation Environment in a custom Windows Forms user interface.
• Simulated Pursuit Camera: The PursuitCamera sample shows how to implement a camera entity that follows behind a target and avoids obstacles.
• Simulated 4x4-drive: The SimulatedFourByFourDrive sample shows how to implement an entity that behaves like a 4x4 off-road car.
• LEGO MINDSTORMS: The RCX samples have been removed from this release.

Decentralized Software Services (DSS)

New Features and Bug Fixes

• Global Assembly Cache: All DSS core DLLs are now installed into the Global Assembly Cache (GAC). This means that they are a shared resource for all installations on a single machine.
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• Visual Studio Project Wizards: The Visual Studio project wizards for DSS services have been rewritten to simply creation of new service projects. Wizards are available for VB.Net and C# across Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. Visual C++ developers as well as developers targeting .NET Compact Framework will still have to use the DssNewService.exe command line tool.

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Why? Because robots are cool!  :)

Nice to see VB.Net support filtering in… Once I get it installed (which I’m doing now, being adventurous and doing it over top the previous CTP…wait… Doh! It’s making me uninstall the old CTP. Well it was worth a try… ;) I’ll check out the samples and see if there are any in VB

 

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