Hey everybody, I've been poking around in MSRS, and I have all of the tutorial examples working. Now I'd like to start designing my own robots; I have a Lego NXT, and all of the tutorials work fine on it.

However, I'm having some trouble completely understanding the manifest files. I understand that manifest files actually tell MSRS "how" to communicate with the robot, and that to change the type of robot I'm working with, I have to modify the manifest files. So if I want to add additional sensors, motors, etc, I have to modify them, but I'm not sure exactly how to do that.

I've read the tutorial on the 3 motor lego robot where it talks about manifest and config files, but I still seem to be doing something wrong. For example, if I just wanted to modify Robotics Tutorial 2 to support two buttons instead of just one, what would I need to change in the manifest file? Also, in the manifest and config files, what are the web addresses used for? I initially thought they might be additional files hosted online that were necessary to the whole process, but they all seem to be dead links. And my last question, at least for now, is about the < >tags in the manifest and config files. Are they just comments to help with modifying the file? Or do they actually mean something to the program?

Any help would be very much appreciated!