Microsoft ESP

Microsoft ESP is a visual simulation platform that brings immersive games-based technology to training and learning, decision support, and research and development modeling for government and commercial organizations. As a full platform, it is an all-in-one set of simulation engine, tools, and content, enabling developers to affordably create compelling simulation solutions for their customers.

Getting Started

Getting Started Overview
Explore how the all-in-one simulation platform of Microsoft ESP can help you build affordable, extensible simulation solutions for your customers.
Microsoft ESP is available to all MSDN Subscribers
Now MSDN Subscribers can get the Microsoft ESP client and SDK from the MSDN Subscriptions Download Center.
How to Buy Microsoft ESP
Microsoft ESP v1.0 client and the Microsoft ESP SDK are available through the Microsoft Volume Licensing program only. Get more information here.

Featured Resources

Microsoft ESP SDK Overview
The Microsoft ESP SDK is the core component of the Microsoft ESP product. Microsoft ESP is a set of tools that enables simulation of real-world objects. The primary focus of this first release is aviation, and the primary scenario is training, although other scenarios such as decision support are also envisaged.
Microsoft ESP Resources
General information, Microsoft ESP Overview, FAQs, technical tools and industry information.
Datasheet on Microsoft ESP (Printable copy)
Microsoft ESP is a developer-ready platform that enables the creation of powerful, affordable solutions to augment real-world training, support decision making, and enable economical R&D modeling. The Microsoft ESP platform—engine, tools, and content—are already used today in Microsoft Flight Simulator X, a popular entertainment platform for immersive simulation and visualization.

Featured Videos

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Microsoft ESP Quick Facts

All-in-one platform
Extensible
Rich content
High-fidelity, dynamic, 3-D immersion
Software Development Kit

Code Samples

Microsoft ESP: Creating AI Objects
This sample illustrates how to create AI Objects in Microsoft ESP.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:40:00 AM

Microsoft ESP: Requesting User Aircraft Data
This sample illustrates how to obtain several User Aircraft data values (lat/lon/alt/heading) via the SimConnect API in Microsoft ESP.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:05:00 PM

Microsoft ESP: Multiplayer C++ Gauges
The shared clock sample shows how to create a gauge in a C++ library that will work in the shared cockpit multiplayer mode.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:15:00 PM

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Microsoft ESP Team Blog

Read the blogs from various team members regarding all of Microsoft’s simulation products.

De-mystifying .FLT files
The SDK documentation for ESP was updated recently with some bug fixes and formatting updates. One o... more
Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:48:00 PM

New code sample and video for ESP
Amongst a variety of conferences including the ESP Developer Conference Tech-Ed 2008 Developer and o... more
Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:50:00 PM

Microsoft ESP Team Bloggers

	Coincidental Floss Mike – We Have a Guest! We are NOT Going to Taco Bell! Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:56:46 PM
	Information Mike Just when you thought life couldn't get any better.... Friday, October 19, 2007 10:25:12 AM
	Beatle’s Blog New Microsoft ESP OnLine Resources Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:10:25 AM
	PTaylor’s WebLog What is available at the MSDN ESP Developer Center Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:39:00 PM
	The panel and gauge side of MS Flight Simulator Jagged edges in your needles? Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:07:00 AM

Microsoft ESP Developer Forum

Read the blogs from various team members regarding all of Microsoft’s simulation products.

Explosions and other special effects
I am controlling AI objects externally, and I was wondering if anyone could explain how to trigger special effects such as explosions or smoke trails using SIMConnect. It is not obvious from the ESP... more
Saturday, July 19, 2008 9:56:11 AM

sockets and simconnect
I have a socket that is giving me LatLong etc from another machine, I want take that info and using SimSetData run the a simobject on ESP, but when I try combinig the twoapplictions I get errors in S... more
Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:17:57 AM

Zoom control
Hi all,Is there a convenient way to control the zoom factor of the current camera?Until now I'm binding client event to ZOOM_IN and ZOOM_OUT events:SimConnect_MapClientEventToSimEvent(m_hSimConnect, E... more
Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:47:30 AM

Setting Initial Position
I am currently using SimConnect with managed code and am having a problem setting the initial position of the aircraft.I am using something similar to the following example code, but in C#. However w... more
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:47:21 PM

Drawing a custom HUD
Can anyone give me some direction on how I could create my own custom HUD. Are there any examples of source code available? I would like to drive this HUD using external data.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:30:48 AM

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Arno Gerretsen
A Flight Simulator user and addon scenery designer since Fs5. Later heavily involved in online scenery design communities and the creation of scenery design tools. He is an Aerospace Engineer in real life, working in the field of flight simulation and aviation research.

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