Programming Microsoft® Robotics Studio

Compiling as a Service

One of the nicer features of VPL is its ability to compile your application as a service. Unfortunately, there is no way to go the other way and turn a service into a VPL application. After you compile a VPL application as a service, you can select it from the list of services in the left-hand menu. This can be useful when you need to group together commonly used blocks into a function that you can reuse in other applications.

To compile the application as a service, click Compile As A Service from the Build menu. This creates a Visual C# project, which you can open in Visual Studio to view the code associated with your VPL application. This can be very useful for programmers who are new to MSRS or programming in general. ...