After installing the latest Add-in I do not have the ability to select the board type.  I had this same issue with the Arduino IDE until I installed the Arduino ERW 1.0.1i version of the IDE.  I think this issue is somehow the add in is not able to find the boards.txt file.  I am running Windows 7 64bit.

Is there a configuration file I can edit to change the path for the boards.txt file?

I think the application is looking in Programs files and not programs file (86).

During the install of Arduino ERW 1.0.1i I did edit the idesettings_v1.0.i.txt and preferences.txt files to correct path information.

Thanks in advance for the help

Ok after uninstalling and reinstalling and nameing the directory to arduinoide.  I am able to go to Tools\arduino and select a board, but I can not figure out how to get that option on the tools ribon.

Thanks for your help you were the only one to point out the name of the arduino directory.

Yes I have the ability to do file>open arduino project.
I also have the ability to do Tools > Arduino > Boards and then select the board.

The tool object is there is just has 2 ? and they are tied to the help files.

I do not see how I can attach an image to this post.

Sorry for the delay. I asked about the other menu items because there are two types of UI objects which are created at different times during startup. One type are created when the addin first loads after install and the other are created every time you start vs. This is due to the internal workings of vs and I won't confuse things by explaining more 

1)

Every so often when vs starts it informs visual micro that tool bars are empty so vm tries to create the objects again! This only happens to one or two users and I suspect that this is caused by another addin or extension. However I think its a vs bug not faulty code by another vs addin author.

In any event it's not something that microsoft want to help us with, actually they are not very helpful with anything!

I suggest that you click the little arrow on the serial tool that allows you to customize the tool bar. When the customization system opens delete the two "Help" buttons. Then re-start vs. The "?" help buttons are created each time you start vs and should be deleted by vs when it closes. Vm does check that this has happened (been deleted) but based on the problem described above this process can become confused.

After deleting the buttons and re-starting vs if you still have a missing boards list then I recommend running the \resetaddin described previously.

2)
One thing to check is that when you right click any tool bar you will see the VS tool bar list on a context menu. At the top of the menu you should see entries for the two Arduino tool bars. Can you see both these tool bars in the list and are they both ticked?

I'm afraid I have lost all my Boards.

I've tried:

- The VS startup options suggested here.
- Playing with the Customisation in VS as suggested here.
- Uninstalling/re-installling 1104 and the debug stuff several times.
- I've followed some boring and time-consuming red herrings in VS (sigh...).

The menu items and the two Arduino windows (Boards, serial port) are present and correct, except that there just aren't any boards listed.  I'm pointing to the Arduino 1.0.1 release.

Help please!

Jim

Thanks Tim.  I was checking that at each point, so I don't think that was the problem in this case.

Howevere, the last thing I tried was a:

devenv /setup

and now it's working - big sigh of relief!

But I'm not sure what was happening - not the first time with VS, as I think you've also found...

Thanks for all the great work and support!

Jim