Channel 9 - Entries tagged with VPL

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio update with Trevor Taylor

John O'Donnell — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:34:00 GMT

With the launch of the new R3 version of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio I sat down to talk about the product with Trevor Taylor, Program Manager with the Microsoft Robotics product group.

Microsoft Robotics combines a number of components to make up a robotics system including Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR), Decentralized Software Services (DSS), Visual Programming Language (VPL) and a Visual Simulation Environment (VSE).

If your robotic interests go beyond creating hobbyist robots and onto .NET based robotics then spend a few moments to get an update from Trevor and also learn how a group of students from the University Of Michigan worked with Ford and Microsoft Robotics to add a custom application platform to the car and build the next generation of in car applications.

You can find additional code samples at http://mrdssamples.codeplex.com/

Finally did I mention that Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio is now free? - you can download it here

Enjoy the show!

John O'Donnell Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
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Andreas Ulbrich demonstrates the Microsoft Visual Programming Language

JonUdell — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:30:00 GMT

In an earlier screencast, Henrik Nielsen illustrates how the Microsoft Robotics Studio, building on top of the CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime) and DSS (Decentralized Software Services) technologies, exposes a RESTful service-oriented architecture.

In this companion screencast, Andreas Ulbrich demonstrates VPL (Visual Programming Language), a diagram-oriented dataflow language. Although it was created for the Robotics Studio, it is -- as you'll see here -- a very general way to visualize, orchestrate, and debug message-driven services that run work in parallel.

Visual Studio Orcas Express: Building "Hello World" using Windows Presentation Foundation

Code4Fun — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:02:58 GMT

Chad Royal from the Cider team walks through building and debugging a simple "Hello World" Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application using the Cider designer.

Note: You must update the WPF Project templates to get Visual Studio Orcas Express to work correctly. This update should be released very shortly.

Microsoft Robotics Tour: CCR, VPL, Simulation - Part 2

Charles — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:18:17 GMT

We recently went back to visit the Microsoft Robotics team to see what they're up to. As expected, they are very busy innovating! This is a four part series where we learn about what's new in CCR (and watch George code!), get a demo of the Visual Programming Language's debugger (outrageously cool stuff), get a demo of the robotics simulation environement and get a status report from team lead Tandy Trower.

Here (Part 2 of 4), we meet Paul Roberts, a software engineer on George's team. He shows us a demo of a visual debugger that is awfully cool. Check this out. Enjoy

See part 1 here.

PS: For those who just can't wait for parts (I hear you. I don't like editing either...) you can watch the whole thing here.