The service tutorials provide an introduction to several features of the service oriented application model provided by Microsoft Robotics Studio. The service tutorials require no robotics hardware.

The tutorials may be available in multiple languages. Please check the available languages in the table of contents and select the one that fits you.

Service Tutorial 1 – Creating a Service

This tutorial provides you with the basics about what a service is and how to create one.

Service Tutorial 2 – Updating State

This tutorial can modify your service state.

Service Tutorial 3 – Persisting State

This tutorial shows you how to persist (save) the state of your service to a file.

Service Tutorial 4 – Supporting Subscriptions

This tutorial shows you how enable your service to provide notifications to other services.

Service Tutorial 5 – Subscribing

This is the counterpart to the previous tutorial and shows you how to subscribe to other services and explains how to use partner services.

Service Tutorial 6 – Retrieving State and Displaying It Using an XML Transform

In this tutorial you will see how to retrieve the state of another service and how to use an XML transform on the service state to provide a richer user interface through a web browser.

Service Tutorial 7 - Advanced Topics

In this tutorial you will see how to subscribe to a service running on another node and how to configure multiple services running as an orchestration.

Service Tutorial 8 - Generic Service Declaration

This tutorial demonstrates how to define a generic service contract without an actual service implementation. Generic service contracts provide a level of abstraction that can be implemented by many different services that want to share a common service declaration but differ in how they are implemented. Consumers of generic contracts do not have to worry about the different service implementations as they all have the same service state and behavior as defined by the generic contract.

Service Tutorial 9 - Implementing and Extending Service Contracts

This tutorial shows three different ways of implementing and/or extending a generic service contract: Basic implementing, Extending, and using as part of a multi-headed service. The tutorial builds on and uses the generic service declaration shown in Service Tutorial 8 (see also SQL: Storing, Retrieving, and Manipulating Data in a SQL server for another example of generic contracts and multi-headed services).

Atom/RSS Syndication Service Tutorial - Putting it all Together

The Atom/RSS Syndication Service Tutorial is an example of a complete service that combines many of the features introduced above as a single service. Among other things the DSS Atom/RSS service demonstrates how to take advantage of existing Web infrastructure in the form of Web browsers and RSS readers and merge it with the DSS service model to allow for automatic, service based interactions. Please see Atom/RSS Syndication Service Overview for a detailed description of the service.