Exploring Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio -- Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) -- Decentralized Software Services (DSS) -- Advanced service concepts -- The MRDS Visual Simulation Environment -- Extending the MRDS Visual Simulation Environment -- Using orchestration services to build a simulation scenario -- Simulating articulated entities -- Adventures in simulation -- Microsoft Visual Programming Language basics -- Visually programming robots -- Visual programming examples -- Using MRDS with robotics hardware -- Remotely controlling a mobile robot -- Using a robotic arm -- Autonomous robots -- Writing new hardware services