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News 13th May 2013 - The Arduino USB Debugger is now included with the latest plugin, you may try it or buy it. No more nag screens and expiry notices!! Thanks to all 3000 beta testers, please use the 30 day trial until you receive your free license key by email

Arduino 1.5 is BETA, any problems please point your config to Arduino 1.0.4 for the next week (unless you need Due). If you use Arduino 1.0.5 then please delete the two library folders called Robot_Control and Robot_vision. (see the beta channel on our download site for many fixes in version 1305.21)

Atmel Studio users please click here for important information

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The free Arduino plugin for Visual Studio 2008. 2010, 2012 and Atmel Studio 6.1 allows an Arduino project (with code completion) to be developed, compiled and then uploaded to any Arduino micro-processor.

Open any Arduino sketch in Visual Studio, select a board and a serial port, then press F5 to upload. It's that easy!

Not available in the vs express versions, if you do not have Visual Studio Pro then please use Atmel Studio 6.1 it is free!

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Arduino for Visual Studio and Atmel Studio is a free alternative, which provides 100% compatibility, to the Arduino programming IDE versions 0023, 1.0.x, 1.5.x (ex hardware libs), support for the new 1.5.3 format due prior to the Arduino release.

Unlike many other Arduino plugins, this plugin ensures compatibility with all arduino open source projects. The plugin brings the same ease of programming to Visual Studio that is provided by the Arduino IDE. It's really easy to use and very stable! Read about some of the distinguishing features of the plugin.

Interesting tools and new in the latest release 1305.09

Arduino for Visual Studio 2010
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Also supports Arduino projects in Visual Studio 2008
Image of Arduino programming in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

The optional Arduino debug tool (not free) ...

Click to enlarge. Soon to be released open source debugger visualizations. Digital and analog visualizations are included with the debugger upgrade

Click to enlarge. Released in May 2013, open source debugger visualizations. Digital and analog visualizations are included with the debugger upgrade

may 2013 - in beta Arduino for Atmel Studio 6.1 - Standard Arduino plugin (free) - read more

Click to enlarge. Atmel Studio 6.1 Support

Atmel Studio 6.1 - Arduino Syntax Color Code and Intellisense

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