This book was designed for people with limited or no experience with robotics—especially with MSRS. However, readers do need to be familiar with basic programming concepts. Those readers already experienced with Visual Studio will have the easiest time working with MSRS. This is especially true for readers already familiar with producing and consuming Web services.

This book may also be useful for developers experienced with MSRS. The last three chapters deal with advanced concepts that are covered only briefly, if at all, by the MSRS documentation.