Microsoft Visual Programming Language, or VPL, is a visual programming and

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language developed by Microsoft for the

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. VPL is based on the event-driven and data-driven approach.Robot as a Service in Cloud Computing
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and C#, as it is the only Microsoft language that is a true

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. Microsoft has utilized the term "Visual" in its previous programming products to reflect that a large degree of development in these languages can be performed by "dragging and dropping" in a traditional

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fashion.

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Microsoft Visual Programming Language

Visual IoT/Robotics Programming Language Environment:

Andreas Ulbrich demonstrates the Microsoft Visual Programming Language
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