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Jul 15th, 2015 at 10:20pm
 
Hi, I just installed the MS VS2013 community edition, and after that, I installed the Visual Micro software package. It tells me it has installed correctly, but doesn't show up in either the Tools menu or File -> New menu.

I've started VS before installing Visual Micro (VM). I did a repair of the VS2013 install, I removed VM and reinstalled. I downgraded to Arduino 1.6.1. (Was at 1.6.5), did another remove-reinstall of VM, but nothing seems to work.

In the manual I read that at first start of VM I am supposed to give information about where it can find the IDE and such, but I dont get this either.

Might it have to do with me not selecting all packages during the installation of VS2013? From the optional packages that I can choose during installation I only choose the foundation classes for C++. I skipped all others as they seemed irrelevant to me.

Thanks for any response.
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Re: No Visual Micro in VS2013CE
Reply #1 - Jul 16th, 2015 at 6:23am
 
I'm having the exact same problem.  I've tried installing and reinstalling several times.  I'll try and research the problem a bit more before waiting for help in the forum.  

After looking around on MSDN, I found this article:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/f55666ce-e299-44b7-863a-1f5546ca89ce/addins-removed-in-next-visual-studio-2015-formerly-vs-14?forum=vsx

Which discusses the deprecation of addins in Visual Studio 2013.  Could this be the source of the problem?  If so, how has everyone else been able to use the Visual Micro addin prior to this time? 
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Re: No Visual Micro in VS2013CE
Reply #2 - Jul 16th, 2015 at 11:46am
 
Hi,

The addin is supported in VS2013

The first thing to check at is to check that the installer has added the visual micro program files path to "Tools>Options>Environment>Add-in Security>Locations"

You should see the location in the list that points to "program files/visual micro/arduino for visual studio"

Can you see this entry in the list? If so then you should also see a Visual Micro entry in "Tools>Add-in Manager". If so then there should be two checkboxes checked?

Thanks
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Reply #3 - Jul 16th, 2015 at 2:17pm
 
That worked!!  Thanks a bunch.  In my case I had to add the location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Micro\Visual Micro for Arduino

to 

Tools>Options>Environment>Add-in Security>Locations

I also had to re-install the Arduino IDE.  I don't get an option to add a new sketch from the Start Page (I'll try and get that working later).  I have to follow File > New > Arduino Project to get a new sketch.  

I've added a menu by selecting Tools > Customize Commands > Add New Menu (which I called "Arduino").  Then I populated the menu "Arduino" with options by selecting Tools > Customize Commands, selecting "Arduino" in the Menu Bar Drop Down, selecting Add Commands multiple times using the commands that appear when highlighting Addins in the Category scroll box. 

Thanks again for the help!
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Reply #4 - Jul 16th, 2015 at 2:19pm
 
Hi,

Not sure why you had to reinstall Arduino. Visual Micro doesn't use much of the Arduino Ide, only underlying hardware defs and libraries

"Tools>Visual Micro>Reset user Interface" normally adds any missing items. 

Question: Did you allow the installer to enter admin mode when prompted? I am trying to understand why the defaults were not set.

Thanks
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Reply #5 - Jul 16th, 2015 at 8:30pm
 
Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Jul 16th, 2015 at 11:46am:

You should see the location in the list that points to "program files/visual micro/arduino for visual studio"


Tim, this seemed to have been the problem. Although it was actually the 'program files (x86)' map, because of the 64-bit system. After adding this map to the list and restarting VS2013CE there appeared an extra entry in the tools menu with all kinds of Arduino related options and I am able to select File->New->Arduino project.

I am happy to have solved this. I'll try the plugin next weekend. Thanks for your quick response.

Marijn
  
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Reply #6 - Jul 16th, 2015 at 8:49pm
 
You know, I'm not sure that I had to re-install the Arduino IDE.  I just didn't see anything that would let me open a new sketch after the Visual Micro installed successfully.  After reading your documentation, it appears to me that there is no way to open a new sketch from the Start Page.  I might have missed the File > New > Arduino Project option and thought I needed to re-install.

I'm not sure what Admin Mode is, but when I did get a successful install everything looked like the example you have in your instructions.  My guess is that your software is running properly, but I can't explain why there was a need for me to modify the addin locations.

Mike
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Reply #7 - Jul 24th, 2015 at 12:13am
 
Just installed 1507.05 Sp4 to run with VS2013 Community Edition and I'm having the same problem (config manager doesn't popup on first run, no "Arduino Project" option in "New", no Arduino templates, basically no sign of the install).   

I believe I found part of the issue; the Visual Micro installer is putting the new templates into a folder called "Visual Studio V2013" which is in the same directory as "Visual Studio 2013", but is not actually the same folder.  All of the other VS templates were in the "Visual Studio 2013" folder, so I moved the Visual Micro ones there, and I can access them from Visual Studio now, but there is nothing about Board Manager or any other Visual Micro features :/
  
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Reply #8 - Jul 24th, 2015 at 10:40am
 
The first points in the FAQ will help anyone who has this issue.

The Tools>Oprtions>Environment>Addin>Security>Locations path needs to be set to the "visual micro for arduino program files" folder. Please see the FAQ for more details

Thanks
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Reply #9 - Jul 26th, 2015 at 1:45am
 
That worked, thanks Tim!
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