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Visual Studio Basics

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Visual Studio is the integrated development environment from Microsoft. VS is a very complex tool designed to build every application you can imagine in the most used developing langauges. The tutorials on this page will only show you the basic usage of Visual Studio.

Create a new robot solution and project as defined in setting up your robot.

To build the first robot right-click on the project and select properties. Select the Build tab and set the "Output Path" to the "Robots" subfolder in your Marvin's Arena install directory.

Click on Build -> Build Solution or press F6. The robot should compile without errors. Now start Marvin's Arena and create a new tournament.

Start to add code to your robot and read the Tutorials. If you want to start the BattleEngine after build have a look at this article.