Running into the oddest problems to date with Visual Micro and Visual Studio 2017. 2 issues, one minor, one major. The icons are missing just like a number of other posts. Minor irritant, but whatever. The major issue is that it will not ever upload code to the Uno. It compiles as it should but never uploads either release or debug versions of the code. Doesn't error out in the log, just never tries to upload. A downgrade to VS 2015 works perfectly right out of the gate. Tried uninstalling VS 2017 and reinstalling multiple times, issue remains. Am I just stuck using VS 2015 or is there some trick I'm missing here? Thanks!

-EM

I apologize if my previous post was confusing.  The compiler variables are being populated properly.  I included the template code (from platform.txt for my AZ3166 board) just to be complete.

This is the output that is shown when I attempt to do an upload from VS2017:

Uploading 'SensorStatus' to 'MXCHIP AZ3166' using 'COM3'
Uploader started for board MXCHIP AZ3166
Upload method will be: bootloader
Uploading via Bootloader 
C:\Users\Mark G exe -f cripts/INTERF~1/STLINK~2.CFG -c transport select hla_swd -f cripts/target/stm32f4x.cfg -c "program atus.ino.bin}} verify reset 0x800C000; shutdown"
GNU ARM Eclipse 32-bits Open On-Chip Debugger 0.10.0-00114-g8419536 (2017-04-18-22:14)
The uploader process failed
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
     http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
interface_transports transport ... 
transport
  transport init
  transport list
  transport select [transport_name]
transport : command requires more arguments
in procedure 'transport'