The Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3 (Microsoft RDS) is a Windows®-based environment for academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. All previous editions of Microsoft RDS 2008 R2 (Express, Standard and Academic) have been combined into one new version, RDS 2008 R3 and can be downloaded at no charge.
The Microsoft CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008 R2 is no longer available as a standalone product and is now included for no charge with RDS 2008 R3.
RDS 2008 R3 includes a lightweight asynchronous services-oriented runtime, a set of visual authoring and simulation tools, as well as templates, tutorials, and sample code to help you get started.
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To understand more about the benefits that Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 can offer to the robotic application developer, start here with background on the product.
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Whether your using Microsoft RDS as a hobbyist, in education, as a professional roboticist, or within a research context; this section can help guide you through content which will help you get up to speed faster.
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Looking for Product Support options? Looking for knowledge from your peers? The Support section can help get you connected with the support you need.
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Looking for more information on prerequisites, installation, simulation, robot hardware and code packages? Getting started with RDS is easy with these step-by-step tips.
