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Francesco14 Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Mar 25^th, 2014	Visual Studio Solutions with multiple Arduino Projects Dec 26^th, 2017 at 9:44pm	Print Post
	Hi all, I use Visual Micro from some years now; currently I'm using it with Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition. Recently I started working on some projects with Moteino (www.lowpowerlab.com) that require a sketch for the gateway and as many sketches as the different kind of remote "nodes" one decide to use. Visual Studio Solutions are very helpful with this kind of applications because they permit to have access to the complete code of an hardware project. However I observed a behaviour that I think should be modified/corrected, at least if possible: if I open a sketch of the solution not marked as the "startup project", all commands (Compile, Rebuild, Clean, etc.) work on the open project but the Run/Debug command always causes the upload of the startup project on the currently selected Moteino/Arduino COM port! In my specific case, for example, if I open a sketch corresponding to a node of the network but the startup project corresponds to another node or to the gateway, when I hit the run button on the toolbar, the sketch that is recompiled and uploaded to the currently selected COM port is the one corresponding to the startup project. The only way to obtain the upload of the correct sketch on the correct Moteino/Arduino seems to be marking it as the startup project prior to hit the Run/Debug command. Certainly this is a behaviour inherited from Visual Studio, but I'm guessing if it is modifiable/customizable in Visual Micro. Any hint will be appreciated.
	« Last Edit: Dec 27^th, 2017 at 8:48am by Francesco14 »

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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Visual Studio Solutions with multiple Arduino Projects Reply #1 - Dec 28^th, 2017 at 10:50pm	Print Post
	Hi There are some options but you are right we have to consider how vs works. If you look at the Debug menu it says "Start project x". We can't change that menu and it also applies to "Build project x". Normally VS is tied to the Startup project unless you right click the project in the solution explorer and click "Start new instance". Then Visual Micro will build/upload the project. However, debugging should always be for the startup project otherwise things get confusing. Visual Micro does attempt to allow a slight variation based on the currently active code/project. However this can be confused if you have switched off the setting that synchronises the solution explorer with currently active code editor The port selection is stored for the currently active code or project. Same for the board selection. If you do not have this behaviour we must look at what "currently active code/project" means in context of what I have said. Does this help at all?


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Francesco14 Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Mar 25^th, 2014	Re: Visual Studio Solutions with multiple Arduino Projects Reply #2 - Jan 2^nd, 2018 at 10:03am	Print Post
	Hi Tim, thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I feared that the modification of the behaviour of Run/Build menù or toolbar buttons of VS was not easy or possible at all... The "start new instance" workaround seems to work well, but what about the possibility to modify at least the behaviour of "Build" and "Build and Upload" additional buttons of VM? In my opinion it should be possible; however consider this only as a hint! Thank you again for your willingness. Best regards Francesco


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Visual Studio Solutions with multiple Arduino Projects Reply #3 - Jan 2^nd, 2018 at 12:53pm	Print Post
	The vm build and build/upload should always upload the active code project unless you have disabled the feature in tools>options. In which case the vm buttons will always build the startup project. Please be clear about your report concerning the vm buttons and be clear about what is selected when you click the buttons and be clear about if you have detached the solution explorer from showing the currently active code file. A screen shot might help Thanks
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Francesco14 Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Joined: Mar 25^th, 2014	Re: Visual Studio Solutions with multiple Arduino Projects Reply #4 - Jan 2^nd, 2018 at 4:37pm	Print Post
	Hi Tim, thank you for your answer; I just verified that the problem was caused by that option set to false. I was simply unaware of its presence between VM options; sorry for the inconvenience. Regards Francesco


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Visual Studio Solutions with multiple Arduino Projects Reply #5 - Jan 2^nd, 2018 at 7:33pm	Print Post
	Thanks for for the update. It should be on by default. I will look into it.


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