Learn about Microsoft Robotics Products

This section contains information about how to get started with Microsoft Robotics products.

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008

Introductory material about Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio including overview papers and more.

On-demand videos covering a wide range of topics including architectural overviews, introduction to Microsoft Visual Programming Language (VPL), simulation overview, basic tutorials covering programming languages such as C#, VB.Net, and IronPython, as well as robotics tutorials showing how to control your robot using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio.

Tutorials and Samples

Use the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio Samples and Tutorials to learn how to get started writing robotics applications. These tutorials are also included in the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio download so that you can try them out for yourself.

Online Help

The main Help File (User Guide) for Robotics Developer Studio is available in the MSDN Library. In addition there is a Class Reference that provides full details of the classes, properties and methods available in RDS.

Both of these are available for download as compressed Help files. Note that the User Guide is included in the package and you do not need to download it separately. It is provided just for people who might want to review the documentation before installing RDS. Please see the Downloads page for more information.

Important Note:

If you are working with a CTP release of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio then you should use the documentation for the samples and tutorials that comes as a compiled Help file in the package. This is accessible via the Start Menu. The documentation available via this web site is only for the latest official release, which is currently RDS 2008 R2 (sometimes referred to as V2.1).