I'd like to know if it is possible to develop C++ software for NXT2 using Visual Studio 2010 as IDE. I know there are small online projects for NXT but I can't find nothing about NXT2.... Any suggestions would be more than welcomed about libraries, software and firmware that is required to achieve this goal: C++ and Visual Studio for NXT2.
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1There is no practical difference between the bricks in the NXT 1.0 and NXT 2.0 sets. – starblue Jan 21 '12 at 13:07
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This should be on Stack Overflow, or something. – Mateen Ulhaq Jan 25 '12 at 01:06
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1@muntoo Happy to get your take on this on meta - Are questions about programming NXT on-topic? – Zhaph - Ben Duguid Jan 25 '12 at 16:47
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I think that all you might need is the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. The examples that I could find all refer to C#, VB.Net, or the included VPL languages but there isn't any reason you wouldn't be able to reference the same objects from managed C++.
It does look like there might not be a full set of services for all of the more recent parts judging from some of the comments in one of the examples that I saw, but the author of that article does have a few other notes elsewhere.
After installing and playing around with it a bit myself, I did find a link to the MSDN documentation for using NXT with MRDS that you can look through before you get started. (I wasn't able to give much of it a try yet because I'm out of batteries with my NXT brick.)
Beyond that a Google search for "mrds nxt" found the following likely useful items:
- CodeProject example (C#) with a link to a previous article on the same site.
- An MSDN tutorial.
- A whole slew of examples on CodePlex
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There are some answers to this on Stack Overflow: C++ OOP Library for Programming the Lego NXT
NXT++ is the best choice with dual USB/Bluetooth support. The C++ communication library has more features, but it's Bluetooth-only.
