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There are lots of errors in the tutorials for CTP1. This article will help you get things going.

I use a Lego Mindstorms RIS v2.0 with Microsoft’s Robotics Studio. If you have a different system, some of the steps will be different. This article will cover a lot of mistakes that are common to all the platforms. You should still find a lot of value in it. First, follow the installation instructions.

Once you have Visual C# Express, Lego Mindstorms SDK and Microsoft Robotics Studio installed, we’ll have to generate signing keys for the software you will write. This was intended to be a simple process, but the script that Microsoft provided does not work with the Express editions of Visual Studio. Microsoft has provided a new script. Replace the file in your Microsoft Robotics Studio directory with this one.

If you installed everything to the default locations, that updated script will work. If, like me you chose to install Visual C# somewhere else, you’ll have to edit the paths in SDKENV.CMD. At the beginning there are a number of paths defined. These all start with %PROGRAM_FILES%. This assumes that you have moved your program files directory. If you have installed Visual C# Express or Microsoft Robotics Studio elsewhere, you will have to correct all these paths.

Now run the Robotics Studio console and it will generate the keys for you. Next we’ll move on to Robotics Tutorial 1.