Hi All,
First of all, the downloads on the fischertechnik web site are out of date.
The same is valid for the old FtService on the Codeplex page.
Fischertechnik & Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 has its own forum.
See:
http://forum.ftcommunity.de/viewforum.php?f=33
(Sven: can you move this question to that forum?)
and a Linkedin group for the distribution of the FtxxServices.
http://www.linkedin.com/home?trk=hb_tab_home_top
For the moment there is only a FtTxService available for the MS-RDS 4 beta 2 release.
MS-RDS is only documented in English.
The FtTxService package contains a set of VPL examples. But before you start with these examples you will need to master the VPL basics.
The message flow oriented approach of VPL differs a lot from the work flow oriented approach of RoboPro. Basically message flow is not difficult but you need to forget a lot of normal imperative programming.
For MS-RDS 4 you will need Windows 7 (the XBOX Kinect SDK runs only on WIndows 7 and higher).
MS-RDS 4 runs on Vista but is not tested.
The FtTxService works under Vista.
See also the help for the requirements.
See also the help “RDSUserGuide.chm” in the <<\Microsoft Robotics Dev Studio 4 Beta 2 root>>\Documentation directory.
In that directory you also will find: "Getting_Started_With_RDS.pdf"
Minimum Requirements
The PC must be capable of running Windows 7 and RDS, including:
DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card
Dual-core processor (2GHz or faster recommended)
10GB of available disk space
2GB of memory (4GB recommended)
At least 2 separate USB 2.0 channels (ideally 3 or more)