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May 4th, 2017 at 9:37am
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Hi,

I installed the latest version of Visualmicro (1704.30) and intellisense had gone crazy. Some examples of Intellisense "errors":

- at almost all functions: function "EMIT" is not a type name
- at almost every if(): expected a ';'

Code is compiled with no problems at all!

Using arduino mega 1280, release mode, VS2015.

I gues this is kind of new gcc version not being compatible with VM and you will solve it soon?
  
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Reply #1 - May 4th, 2017 at 1:16pm
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Thanks for the post. I responded to your pm asking for verbose output and for you to create a thread in this forum.

You have created the thread so we just need the output emailed.

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Reply #2 - May 4th, 2017 at 2:41pm
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Thanks for the verbose output.

Please open board manager and uninstall the avr tool chain.

The issue might be some vm confusion with the board manager version of avr and the version installed with the arduino ide. You don't need to use board manager for avr because it is always included with arduino ide. To be clean, restart the ide after making changes to board manager.

If this resolves then I will look at the issue. If not please zip and email the .vcxproj file from your project folder

Thanks
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Reply #3 - May 5th, 2017 at 10:57am
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Another thought.

Delete this folder and restart the ide

C:\Users\[your name]\AppData\Local\arduino15\packages\arduino
  
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Reply #4 - May 5th, 2017 at 1:15pm
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Hi,

did it, but errors are the same, no difference at all.
  
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and if you now switch between boards maybe that forces a refresh of intellisense.

otherwise I will look at your .vcxproj over the weekend.
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Reply #6 - May 5th, 2017 at 8:13pm
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I looked at your vcxproj but I need to see it now that you have removed the C:\Users\[your name]\AppData\Local\arduino15\packages\arduino folder

Thanks

ps: Unrelated- Your project is set to use the 2560 not not the 1280

  
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Reply #7 - May 6th, 2017 at 12:00pm
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Switching between boards does not help Intellisence to start working correctly, also.

(Jp, I test code on both, 1280 and 2560. I have two workstations and both have the same symptoms. I have VM licence and I truly congratulate you for VM.)
  
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Reply #8 - May 6th, 2017 at 1:01pm
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1) Can you please close the solution and zip and email the project to me.

2) Confirm the issue happens with a new test project?

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Reply #9 - May 6th, 2017 at 8:18pm
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Thanks for the email.

The ArduinoJson library uses syntax that Visual Studio intellisense does not like. It's the only one I know of and was reported a couple of weeks ago by another user.

We will shortly move to Microsoft new CLang intellisense system which handles things better.

There are only two possible workarounds

1) Use Visual Micro in AStmel Studio 7

2) Wrap the include of arduino.json in a define that causes intellisense to ignore but compile to work as normal. It's a lame workaround because all of the arduino json calls in your code will show errors and not show any intellisense. However everything else will work as expected.

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#if !defined(_MSC_VER)

 #include <ArduinoJson.h>

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Reply #10 - May 7th, 2017 at 9:05am
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Or I will use other Json library  Wink

Thanky you for support!
  
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