How to reset the arduino visual studio interface

by Visual Micro 1. October 2011 22:11

It might sometimes be useful to remove all of the arduino commands from the visual studio interface and reset the addin

Visual Studio (devenv.exe) provides a standard switch '/resetaddin' which will perform this function

The arduino addin uses the following key 'Visual.Micro.Visual.Studio.Arduino.Helper'

To reset the arduino addin, run visual studio passing the following /resetaddin command

 Depending on your security settings you might need to run Visual Studio as Administrator to either install or reset the arduino addin

  • Close all IDE instances.
  • Open a Visual Studio .NET Command Prompt ("Run...", "Programs", "Visual Studio .NET", "Visual Studio .NET Tools", "Visual Studio .NET Command Prompt")
  • Enter "devenv.exe /resetaddin Visual.Micro.Visual.Studio.Arduino.Helper" (without the quotes) and press ENTER
  • Close all IDE instances.
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