Hi, 

I have just installed Visual Studio 6.2 and "Arduino IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio and Atmel Studio" along with various updates, etc.

Initially it ran ok, but now when I start it, I get a message dialog saying "Error reading variants path" after which the application closes. 

I have searched Google and these forums but haven't found anything.

Does anyone have any idea what this messages means and how to go about fixing the problem?

Regards,
Mark

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the quick response. 

I deleted the registry entries and visual micro started up ok. It then asked me for the location of arduino.exe (Configure Visual Micro window): c:\arduino-1.0.3

I then tried to open one of my two test projects - both crashed visual micro with the same error.

I deleted the registry entries and tried again. This time I created a new project and all seemed fine until I changed the micro type from uno to Leostick v1.0 and the error message and shutdown recurred.

It seems that the problem is with the Leostick V1.0 definition but it works ok with the arduino ide.

I am installing arduino 1.0.6 now, but I don't expect it to help.
I will try and check the Leostick files too but I have no idea yet what I am looking for

Any further help would be much appreciated.

Regards
Mark

P.S. Whilst mucking about, I got the attached weird error message. Incidentally, I have no project called foobar.