Using the arduino boards menu in visual studio

by Visual Micro 11. April 2010 16:59

The visual studio tool bar provides a way to select which arduino circuit board each project will use

When a board is selected, all of the items in the "_core" filter are removed and replaced by the files from the newly selected boards arduino core

If the _core filter does not exist then it is created. In the example below, the board is about to switch from "atmega168" to "arduino mega"

In the current visual micro version the include and source files are automatically separated into "inc" and "src" filters (see below)

 

 

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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