Download Arduino for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010

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Click this codeplex download link or the image below to download the Arduino for Visual Studio

Some of the documentation on this site might still refer to the previous version. We might move away from codeplex so please bookmark this page and not codeplex.
 

What we are working on for the next major release at the end of 2011?
  • Support for Arduino 1.0

 

Tips & Bits

Connect two or more arduinos and spy on the serial communication using visual studio and "Serial Echo"

Coming soon! Android and Processing for Visual Studio

How to prevent or remove Visual Studio pch folders

How to configure visual studio color coding for arduino source code

See more Examples

We can use different arduino engines to power our visual studio addin. However, please use the arduino 0022 engine until we have an arduino 1.0 solution.

The new version of Arduino for Visual Studio includes initial suport for the new arduino .ino file extension. You can not yet compile for arduino 1.0 but you can compile sketches containg a mix of .pde and .ino sketches.

Multiple sketch projects and windows projects can co-exist in a single solution. Fully integrated. F5 Compile and upload (startup project). Build Project, Build Solution