Installation VS2010 + SP1
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This is what I have in tools-options

I have just noticed that you haven't installed VB.NET. This is probably the problem.

VB.NET is in the required install list on codeplex because some older parts of vm still use vb for visual studio commands and macros.

Sorry to waste your time with the vb. it's good to know it is no longer required. It's not an easy thing to test without screwing up my vs installs.

The trace shows the basic system is working but is failing to create the boards menu. This is a standard part of the system used by all so I need to ask you about your arduino install.

In the options, have you pointed visual micro to a clean arduino.exe 1.0.1 installation?

Okay that is a clean install of 1.0.1 (un-modded)

Thanks for the picture it shows that you have added some additional board/hardware (such as ATtiny45) to the default arduino list. This is fully supported but we obviously have the following issue.

These additional boards will be located in one of two places "sketchfolder/hardware" or "arduinoide/hardware"...

The problem will be that a board has an "invalid" character in it such as a dash. When I say invalid, I mean invalid for visual studio macro names which vm will be trying to create when you get the error.

Visual micro is supposed to handle this conflict in the background. If we can establish what the "invalid" board name I can make a new release with a fix for the character we find and for other combinations that might fail.

I would like to make this work and keep the compatibility with vs macros simply because it allows people to assign shortcuts and tool bars that use the macros such as switching board or serial port.

If you can zip and email your two hardware folders as stated above then I will find the problem.

Thanks

PS: The error is happening when vm tries to create the Tools>Arduino>Boards menu list not the combo box on the tool bar. The combobox system in vs doesn't use macros which is why you can see all the boards in the list.

Yes that will be fine thanks. The email hasn't arrived yet, can you point me to where you downloaded the board(s) files from. Thanks

or just paste the contents of the boards.txt in the tiny folder into a [code] block in this thread

Erm. The problem will be the dashes in the board names in boards.txt. This was fixed in the last version of visual micro (few days ago)

Can you check your vm version in tools>options>visual micro>version. it should be 1210.24. 

If not please close vs and run the install from our download site on codeplex. 

Thanks

Until you have some usage without issue let's remove one of the projects so that you are working with single project solutions. 

Each project can retain it's own board and for new users it is easier just to say one project per solution to start with. Until it is reliable for you, then if you move to two projects and it breaks we will know what caused it.

Once you have removed the 2nd project please switch between boards and back again. Hopefully the intellisense then works correctly and stays working correctly. Don't forget to click "Yes" to save changes when you shutdown/restart VS.

It is possible the recent changes for VS 2012 have affected things but I haven't had any reports from other users of the intellisense failing. So hopefully this way of working gets you up and running.

If the problem persists please zip and email one of the sketches where the intellisense is failing and all files in the "Visual Micro" folder that will have automatically been created below the sketch.

Let me know how you get on.

ps: To remove a project from a Visual Studio solution, right click a project name in the solution explorer and click "Remove"

Yup, that sorted it.

I never expected to get a reply this late!

I`ll probably have some more questions tomorrow, but thats enough for now!

Thanks!