VS Arduino - Where to reset V-M settings?

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HeBeGB Newbies Offline Posts: 2 Joined: Oct 18^th, 2012	Where to reset V-M settings? Nov 20^th, 2012 at 4:43am	Print Post
	Using VS 2010 pro... I evaluated VM with a UNO that happened to install as COM4. Now, I purchased a mega2560 which installed as COM5 and works fine with Arduino SW. Problem is that the com port toolbar in VS won't change... clicking the down arrow, it shows COM5 in the dropdown, but when I select it, it stays on COM4. The board selector toolbar is always blank (and no dropdown list). I've uninstalled V-M & V-M debug, d/l newest versions, rebooted, etc to no avail. It still kept COM4 settings somewhere... I haven't un/reinstalled VS yet. Following the Wiki on how to reset (http://www.visualmicro.com/post/2011/10/01/How-to-reset-the-arduino-visual-studi...) did not help. Thanks in advance In builds 1309.01+, the menu item "Tools>Visual Micro>Reset User Interface" is a simple way to repair or restore Visual Micro menu and tool bar commands
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Where to reset V-M settings? Reply #1 - Nov 20^th, 2012 at 8:18am	Print Post
	The last used port is saved to the registry and can be seen in tools>options>visual micro. However the problem is being caused by something else. The empty boards list is an indicator and the problem will not be fixed by uninstalling vs or vm (so dont waste your time trying that) I'll need to ask you some questions to help fix it... Do you see a list of boards on the Tools>arduino menu? Is your tools>options>visual micro>arduino location pointing to the same arduino exe you are using for your test? If you switch on tools>options>visual micro>user interface>trace and restart vs do you see any errors appear in the output window after vs has started? please email what appears in the output window. When you tried the resetaddin did you fully qualify the path to devenv.exe? Thanks


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HeBeGB Newbies Offline Posts: 2 Joined: Oct 18^th, 2012	Re: Where to reset V-M settings? Reply #2 - Nov 20^th, 2012 at 3:14pm	Print Post
	Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Nov 20^th, 2012 at 8:18am: I'll need to ask you some questions to help fix it... Besides the wonderful products you have made, I love the responsiveness and helpfulness! Thanks! After answering all your questions and preparing a long response here (hence deleted), I decided to go ahead and reselect the Arduino.exe even though I have never changed it and it's setting was correct. Since I had already set the trace true and restarted, by selecting the arduino.exe again, lots of stuff happened that looked promising: Create UI command items Begin CreateCommandBarItems Begin AddinVer=1.1211.04 Get Bar Tools Create Bar Tools>Arduino Adding Tools>Ports Adding Tools>Other Ports Adding Tools>Programmers Adding Tools>Using Programmer Adding Tools>Burn Bootloader Get CustomToolBarObjects Adding UI Menu-Board-Items Adding UI Menu-SerialPort-Items Adding ToolBar-Lib-Items Added Library names to UI Create UI command items End Restarting VS again, Happy days!� COM5 showed up, boards showed up, project compiles & downloads. I guess the key thing is that selecting the .exe also kicked off reinitializing the Add-in. Thanks again!


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