Programming FRC robot in Visual Studio

[coolnerdguy1353]

I am just wondering if it is possible to program an FRC robot in C++ on Visual Studio. Is there a configuration file that I can download?

[mikets]

I don't think Visual Studio comes with a PowerPC cross compiler and is not compatible with the vxWork binary format. So I would guess it is not possible.

[runfrodorun]

Not to mention that the code is structured differently, and the Microsoft Libraries are pre-compiled to x86. It may be possible however to use the IDE from Visual Studio, but the question is how long you are willing to spend to set that up.

[amesmich]

Is this still the case for 2015? We are looking for something with less issues than eclipse.

[fsilberberg]

It could be theoretically possible. I know that it's possible to create a gradle script that would build for the roboRIO, and gradle has visual studio integration. However, I've never used the visual studio plugin before, so I don't know for sure.

[MrRoboSteve]

If you're looking for a complete toolchain for VS that targets the roboRIO, I'm not aware of one.

[Bongle]

I believe there is a way to set up a makefile project, but it'd be a long job. You'd basically have to bind the "build" and "run" actions to shell scripts that do the actual compiling and deploying. You wouldn't get any debugging and _probably_ wouldn't get as good code completion/intellisense.