Hi,

1)
General includes are fully supported by the VS C++ engine but remember the arduino rules in an arduino project

2)
If you are manually including new libraries you will need to click save after adding your includes. When you click save vm will look for the new library path and add it t the c++ includes so the intellisense will work.

3)
If you have added a new arduino lib folder and have not re-started vs then click Project>Add Arduino Library>Refresh

4)
You can bring libs into the current project with "Project>Show all arduino files"

5)
You can create a new sketch project in a library folder, ensure you add a .h with the same name as the lib. You can add existing files or add new txt, cpp and .h files to the project in a number of ways. If you have a normal sketch and a lib sketch in the same vs solution then after creating the lib sketch make sure you click 3) above. Then you will be able to use "Project>add arduino library>" to add the #includes of the lib to the normal arduino sketch

So above you have the ability to do everything you can do in notepad and more?

Hi Tim,

I think we have a slight miscommunication

I meant that intellisense wouldn't auto complete #Include


in VB.NET:


I usually have typed #Include <mylib.h> before I realize I could have used "add arduino library" 

Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Jan 8^th, 2013 at 7:39pm:

I replied to your email