I have taken another try at working with this new release. So far, it looks pretty nice, and the Visual Programming Language (VPL) included now actually does work. I am not sure MS needed to divide the programming tasks down quite as far as they did, but it does work. Now I am getting to the point where I would like to try adding support for my own robots, such as W.A.L.T.E.R. and am starting to think MS actually may be on the right track.
There is a problem with VPL crashing on startup that may be corrected as follows:
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Uninstall the .NET Framework 3.0
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Download the latest .NET 3.0 Framework from Microsoft.
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Install the newly downloaded .NET Framework 3.0
This procedure works and fixes the crashing VPL on startup problems. I found this solution on the MSDN Forums.
8-Dale