Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio enables developers to quickly and easily create robotics applications for a variety of different platforms. This article will serve as a quick overview of the different technologies involved and will walk you through building your first robotics application.

 The beauty of a dynamic Web site is that a handful of physical scripts can generate any number of different Web pages. One downside of this approach is that the URLs associated with these pages can get pretty ugly. With the Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 you can have the best of both worlds -- a site that's easy to manage and user-friendly URLs.

 This article picks up right where our introduction to Windows Server 2008 Server Core left off. This time around we cover installing a server role, keeping your server patched and updated, and enabling remote administration.

 Microsoft revealed quite a bit of exciting information at PDC 2008. Sprinkled in with the first real Windows 7 information and all the talk about the Azure Services Platform, was some interesting information on the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0.

 Server Core is a new installation option that was introduced in Windows Server 2008. It provides the ability to install and configure a trimmed-down version of Windows Server 2008 which is designed to perform only certain server tasks.