Welcome to Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2. This release is an upgrade to the 2008 version. It contains some new features and improvements as well as bug fixes. This page hits some of the highlights. For a complete list of new features, please see the topic What's New?. More detailed information on changes is available in the Release Notes.

DSS Log Analyzer

The DSS Log Analyzer originally appeared in a Community Technology Preview. It is now available in RDS 2008 R2 (all Editions).

The Log Analyzer shows you graphically the message traffic between services in the Services View. It can be used filter the messages, and zoom in on particular message in the Time Line View to examine its contents. Temporal relationships between messages are clearly shown in the Causality View. 

New Simulation Sensors and Tutorials

This release contains a completely new set of Simulation Tutorials that illustrate how to use the new simulated sensors and also how to place multiple robots into the simulation environment simultaneously. Several new sensors are available, including Compass, GPS, Brightness and Sonar. A rudimentary robot, without a 3D mesh, is used to show the basic principles of simulation. The robot can be placed into rich scenes such as the Apartment model.

The screenshot above shows how basic image processing operations can be applied to the webcam video stream. (In this case it is an edge detector).

Support

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