VS Arduino - Multiple tool bar buttons and menus?

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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Oct 12^th, 2011 at 12:14pm	Print Post
	If the addin fails to load first time then it can cause buttons and menus to be duplicated each time visual studio loads Running the following command clears all of the arduino buttons and menus froms visual studio �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 If you have multiple copies of visual studio installed then you might have to QUALIFY the path to your visual studio 2010 devenv.exe. When you run the resetaddin command, if Visual Studio opens any windows you can cancel and close them. After the reset you will know if it has worked. You should see only one of each button and menu item if the addin is installed and you should not see any buttons or menus if the addin is not installed We will shortly produce a version that alerts users to any issues and prevents duplicate items. However, if you keep getting issues please let us know what version of visual studio you are using and which language Visual Studio is running (french, chinese etc)
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fettoir Junior Member Offline Posts: 21 Location: france Joined: Apr 11^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #1 - Oct 23^rd, 2011 at 7:27am	Print Post
	I followed your instructions: at first start only a menu appears, but the second, again the multiple menus appear, my version : VS 2010 Ultimate version French


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #2 - Oct 23^rd, 2011 at 11:24am	Print Post
	hi, do you also get multiple tool bar buttons? can you switch on the trace in the tools>options>vm>version and also set read/write permissions to where you installed the addin then start vs, stop vs, then email the trace.txt file that will appear in the vm install folder thanks


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Barry Newbies Offline Posts: 1 Joined: Oct 22^nd, 2011	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #3 - Oct 24^th, 2011 at 4:09pm	Print Post
	For info: I had the multiple menus and a message saying stdole missing (or similar) each time VS started. I had installed VS2010 (English) with C++ option only, onto a clean OS. I solved this by also installing the MS Office and VB.net options in VS. I assume one of these installs stdole onto the machine.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #4 - Oct 24^th, 2011 at 4:14pm	Print Post
	(Updated) That's very interesting thanks very much for posting. This is probably the issue affecting 2 or 3 other users. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT THE FOLLOWING ARE INSTALLED:- MS OFFICE and also VB.NET options in VS The addin does require an installation of Visual Studio with C++,C# and VB.NET. The VB.NET will shortly be dropped. Ms Office is required because Visual Studio uses the Office Command Bars. I will update codeplex with a note about this. Thanks for the post, if anyone has multiple control problems then please post to let us know. Thanks
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fettoir Junior Member Offline Posts: 21 Location: france Joined: Apr 11^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #5 - Oct 29^th, 2011 at 6:35pm	Print Post
	here is my trace.txt file : CreateCommandBarItemsPerm Begin AddinVer=18 Adding Tool bars and combos CreateCommandBarItemsPerm End Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=18 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-User Added ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Board-Items Adding ToolBar-SerialPorts-Items Create command bar items End


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #6 - Oct 29^th, 2011 at 9:05pm	Print Post
	@fettoir, Thanks for the trace, no errors but here is some info... The way any vs addin works is that after install (or resetaddin) vs sends a setup() command to the addin just once. When the setup is called the addin writes the following trace entry:- CreateCommandBarItemsPerm Begin AddinVer=18 I think that your trace is not after a resetaddin so we need to know why VS is not doing what it is documented to do. It keeps wrongly thinking it needs to call the addin for setup() Can you please confirm that the trace looks the same every time you start VS. And also what extensions or other addins you have loaded. I would like to replicate your enviroment. Thanks


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fettoir Junior Member Offline Posts: 21 Location: france Joined: Apr 11^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #7 - Oct 30^th, 2011 at 8:28am	Print Post
	my environement : win7 64 professional french visual studio 2010 ultimate french before install this version i've uninstall the old versions (vs2008 & VS2010) of visual micro. for info i haven't this problem with vs2008 (works fine) here is the trace after some restart : CreateCommandBarItemsPerm Begin AddinVer=18 Adding Tool bars and combos CreateCommandBarItemsPerm End Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=18 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-User Added ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Board-Items Adding ToolBar-SerialPorts-Items Create command bar items End CreateCommandBarItemsPerm Begin AddinVer=18 Adding Tool bars and combos CreateCommandBarItemsPerm End Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=18 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-User Added ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Board-Items Adding ToolBar-SerialPorts-Items Create command bar items End Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=18 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Get CustomToolBarObjects Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-User Added ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Board-Items Adding ToolBar-SerialPorts-Items Create command bar items End CreateCommandBarItemsPerm Begin AddinVer=18 Adding Tool bars and combos CreateCommandBarItemsPerm End Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=18 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-User Added ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Board-Items Adding ToolBar-SerialPorts-Items Create command bar items End
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #8 - Oct 30^th, 2011 at 10:25am	Print Post
	thanks. both 2008 and 2010 use the same code so this will probably turn out to be a vs 2010 quirk we have many 64 bit users so it isn't specific to a vs version do you have any other addins showing in extension manager or addin manager? can you try running vs with admin permissions to see if it fixes the problem. do you know how to run a program as administrator? tx


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #9 - Oct 30^th, 2011 at 11:04pm	Print Post
	@fettoir please also try to confirm what exactly is repeating. for example:- is the boards list on the tool bar repeating? is the arduino entry on the tools menu repeating? if the File>Open>Arduino Project repeated? Thanks


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Niki_77 Junior Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: Nov 1^st, 2011	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #10 - Nov 1^st, 2011 at 5:26pm	Print Post
	Hi to all. Same problem for me, visual studio 2008 team system. Win7 ultimate 64bit. Above my trace : Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=18 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Get CustomToolBarObjects Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Unable to create command bar items Valore non compreso nell'intervallo previsto. The text in bold is a specific italian error message , in english sounds like Index out of bound problem. After a little analisys with reflector, i think the problem is in RefreshCommandBarLibsMenu() in the first foreach cycle, when try to AddCommandBarButton() , because outside this cycle is immediately present other trace message not present on my log. I hope this help.
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #11 - Nov 1^st, 2011 at 5:38pm	Print Post
	Hi Nicola, Your problem is slightly different to the vs 2010 problem. Some info... You can clear any duplicates by running the resetaddin that is documented on the site. The index out of bounds error is usually boards and libs that can't be found. A user had the same problem that you had because they had not set the arduino.exe location in the opions. What location have you set for the arduino.exe? Thanks


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Niki_77 Junior Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: Nov 1^st, 2011	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #12 - Nov 1^st, 2011 at 6:11pm	Print Post
	Hi. The location of my installation is D:\arduino-0022 , and is correctly set, because if i try to write a simple code and compile it work perlectly. I think is only a problem building the library menu items. I've installed the visual micro in other laptop with no problem. Update. PROBLEM SOLVED. The problem is the ".svn" subversion source control folder! I've try to remove the "libraries" folder from the source control and now working great. By the way I think is important to plan a code modify for a workaround in a next version.
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #13 - Nov 1^st, 2011 at 6:41pm	Print Post
	oh what a star! we'll get that fixed thanks very much, i've added a codeplex issue report


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Niki_77 Junior Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: Nov 1^st, 2011	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #14 - Nov 1^st, 2011 at 8:18pm	Print Post
	Hi, i've see the entry in odeplex but i think is a little bit improper description. Code Description .svn source control on lib folders causes duplicate tool bar items and index out of range errors I think is impossible that the .svn folder can cause duplicate item, but only index out of bound error. Thanks to us for the very interesting add-in. I hope can help us again.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #15 - Nov 1^st, 2011 at 8:42pm	Print Post
	you might be right, it' actually a bug that causes the duplicates and the out of range error but caused by .svn stuff. Until we investigate the actual reason (files and folders that start with a . should be ignored) I couldn't think of a better description. I guess it's more of a reminder for when it gets tested and fixed Thanks again, it's nice having members like you. ps: visual studio is very sensitive to errors. after an error it can often return null when testing for the existence of a UI object. In this case the argument out of range is also causing vs to get a bit confused. So in a way this does end up causing duplicates because the addin keeps being told elements are missing when they are not.
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #16 - Nov 1^st, 2011 at 9:39pm	Print Post
	nicola, a question. i've just looked at my libraries and many of them have .svn sub folders which are being ignored and are not causing a problem. please can you describe where the .svn folder should be to cause a problem? thanks


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Niki_77 Junior Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: Nov 1^st, 2011	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #17 - Nov 1^st, 2011 at 11:26pm	Print Post
	Hi, Really i've only one, hidden .svn folder under libraries root. In this case i haven't enought .svn folder in the single library subdirectory. I try to attach an image the hidden folder on the top of the explorer windows is the one generating the error. I think the error occurr enumerating the directory in the libraries folder, and any of the AddCommandBarButton() parameter don't like a string starting with "." (dot) I hope this help you.
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #18 - Nov 1^st, 2011 at 11:57pm	Print Post
	ah! the routine that gets the lib list. forgot about that one thanks again, it should be sorted within the next week


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fettoir Junior Member Offline Posts: 21 Location: france Joined: Apr 11^th, 2010	Re: Multiple tool bar buttons and menus? - Please read Reply #19 - Dec 29^th, 2011 at 11:56pm	Print Post
	i'va always the same problem : i've remove visual micro and old addin from previous version. i've remove all entry visual micro� in registry ... i've remove all ".svn" or ".something" directory from the arduino libraries folders... only Arduino boards and arduino Serial Communication are duplicated. here is my trace file after few visual studio runs any ideas ?? Code CreateCommandBarItemsPerm Begin AddinVer=21 Adding Tool bars and combos CreateCommandBarItemsPerm End Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=21 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-User Added ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Board-Items Adding ToolBar-SerialPorts-Items Create command bar items End CreateCommandBarItemsPerm Begin AddinVer=21 Adding Tool bars and combos CreateCommandBarItemsPerm End Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=21 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-User Added ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Board-Items Adding ToolBar-SerialPorts-Items Create command bar items End CreateCommandBarItemsPerm Begin AddinVer=21 Adding Tool bars and combos CreateCommandBarItemsPerm End Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=21 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-User Added ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Board-Items Adding ToolBar-SerialPorts-Items Create command bar items End CreateCommandBarItemsPerm Begin AddinVer=21 Adding Tool bars and combos CreateCommandBarItemsPerm End Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=21 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-User Added ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Board-Items Adding ToolBar-SerialPorts-Items Create command bar items End CreateCommandBarItemsPerm Begin AddinVer=21 Adding Tool bars and combos CreateCommandBarItemsPerm End Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=21 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-User CreateCommandBarItemsPerm Begin AddinVer=21 Adding Tool bars and combos CreateCommandBarItemsPerm End Create command bar items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=21 GetCommands Commands2 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-User Added ToolBar-Lib-Items Adding ToolBar-Board-Items Adding ToolBar-SerialPorts-Items Create command bar items End


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