.NET developers already familiar with Visual Studio and the .NET Framework will likely adjust to using MSRS the quickest. However, robotics programming is very different from traditional types of programming, especially Web development. Even though some developers may have worked somewhat with asynchronous processing, it’s unlikely that they’ve had to manage as many asynchronous tasks as a robotics application might require.

Web development with the .NET Framework typically involves one or more concurrent users entering and retrieving information from a Web page. Even though the information is dynamic and typically fed from a relational database, the processing is generally sequential, and one process typically does not start until another one completes. With robotics programming, multiple sensors could be receiving data at any and all times. To accomplish autonomous behavior, in which the robot is able to roam about freely, the code needs to be able to handle reading sensor data and then directing the robot to do something. All of these actions must occur at the same time.