RCX with Visual Studio

Hi,

 

I was wondering, if it's possible to program a RCX with Visual Studio (either with C# or with C++(using something like SDL as an interface)). I kind of a newbie with mindstorm, so what I imaging is the following: Actually I plan to attach a camera to a RCX robot and to move the robot depending on the camera images. I would need a way to influence the robot movement in real-time from a GUI, that I'm coding myself with C++ or C#.

 

I suppose that I need to write a separate program that runs on the controller and to integrate some code in my image processing software to interface with the robot. Right?

 

I found some project (http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2006/10/26/877499.aspx <http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2006/10/26/877499.aspx> ) that is dealing with RCX Programming with visual studio, but it seems quite outdated.

 

Can anybody give me a hint?

 

Thanks a lot in advance 

 

Philip