Thread: MSRS interface for the VEX controller
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Re: MSRS interface for the VEX controller
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Are you asking what's the difference between Visual Studio and Robotics Studio?
Visual Studio is an environment for programming languages like Visual Basic, C++, and C#. There is a free version of Microsoft's Visual Studio products at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) is something quite different. It does provide a rich environment for experimenting with robotics. That product's developer center is located at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/default.aspx You can also download Robotics Studio free of charge from their web site.

MSRS is dependent on support from programming languages like those provided by Visual Studio.

If you can get a copy of the Spring 2007 issue of Robot Magazine http://www.botmag.com/ they have an article about MSRS using the Parallax Boe-Bot robot.

For those with the Lego Mindstorm Robots, MSRS already provides support for these devices. I don't have either the Mindstorms or the BOE-Bot otherwise I would be starting MSRS experiments with them.