Microsoft released a separate toolkit for using the CCR and DSS framework inside your own applications, enabling Concurrent programming inside your regular C# (or VB.NET) application. And managing a directory of services with the DSS framework. So there is no need anymore for using Robotics Studio for these environments.

http://www.microsoft.com/ccrdss/

Get the whitepaper here:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/6/b/56b49917-65e8-494a-bb8c-3d49850daac1/Microsoft%20CCR%20and%20DSS%20Toolkit%202008%20Standard%20Edition%20Datasheet%20EN.pdf

Also read the stories from Siemens and Tyco, Siemens uses the CCR to scan mail (not email) and OCR the results and Tyco using the CCR for a security system. Both with great numbers of messages.