I would recommend just using XMLRPC to communicate between C++/Python ROS
nodes on the Unix machine and the C# application on Windows:

XMLRPC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC
C#: http://www.xml-rpc.net/
C++: http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/
Python: http://docs.python.org/library/xmlrpclib.html

Hope that helps,

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William Woodall
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Auburn University
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Solochek <aarons-ros@aberrant.org>wrote:

> Yeah, I've read that.  It addresses getting ROS running on windows,
> which is not what I want to do.  I don't need a complete ROS environment
> on windows.  All I need is to communicate with a ROS network.
>
> My question is whether it will be fairly straight forward to emulate a a
> very simple ROS node on windows (capable of sending joystick commands),
> or if that will be complicated enough that I'm better off doing
> something proprietary for the windows<->ROS communication link.
>
> To be clear, I'm talking about trying to implement the bare minimum
> required to appear as a ROS node to roscore (running on another machine)
> from scratch in C#.
>
> -Aaron
>
>
>
> On 6/14/2010 5:18 PM, Ken Conley wrote:
> > This wiki page has all the currently known ways of getting running on
> > Windows:
> >
> > http://www.ros.org/wiki/Windows
> >
> >  - Ken
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Aaron Solochek
> > <aarons-ros@aberrant.org <mailto:aarons-ros@aberrant.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     The system I'm working on uses ROS on the backend for a variety of
> >     control stuff, but has a user interface that is going to be written
> >     in C#.
> >
> >     What is the recommended way to get some 2-way communication going
> >     between this windows program and ROS?  Should I make a node on the
> linux
> >     box that speaks some proprietary thing with the windows program, or
> >     should I try to implement a ROS node in C#?
> >
> >     Better yet, has anyone already done something I can use for this? :)
> >
> >     Any advice would be appreciated, and please copy me on replies since
> I'm
> >     only getting the daily digest of this list.
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >
> >     -Aaron
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