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Error: "Unable to Create New Sketch"
Jan 15th, 2013 at 2:50pm
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Greets to all! Total newbie with Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Micro.  I believe I have the latest versions and updates, but when I attempt to create a new Arduino sketch project, I get the following message from Visual Micro:

"OpenProject: Unable to ensure project sketch files: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative index and less than the size of the collection.  Parameter name: index"

In a word:  WTF???   Cheesy

Have I installed things wrong? Watzup??   Tongue

=Alan R.
  
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Re: Error: "Unable to Create New Sketch"
Reply #1 - Jan 15th, 2013 at 3:23pm
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Hi, sounds like your arduino exe location has been entered incorrectly or has changed since you set it in the Tools>options.

Index out of range needs to become a better error but generally means that it can't find a board in the boards list. Normally means the boards list is empty because the arduino exe location is incorrect.

Does this help?
  
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Re: Error: "Unable to Create New Sketch"
Reply #2 - Jan 15th, 2013 at 5:30pm
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Yes - it is a start!  Seems like my "Boards" menu is still grayed out.  AFAIK I've found the Ardunio-1.0.3 app ok, and VisMicro shows "Last Board" as "Uno" which is correct.

If I altered any of the standard save-paths, could that screw things up?  I generally don't like to keep things in the Win7 default "Documents", and create my own folders.

There are also some lengthy Intellisense errors...

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Reply #3 - Jan 15th, 2013 at 5:39pm
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Stop the presses!  Problem found: You MUST have the board plugged in before you can start creating sketches....    Shocked

=Alan R.
  
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Reply #4 - Jan 15th, 2013 at 8:26pm
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Hi, thanks for the note. Vm doesn't really care if the board is plugged in or not so I am still confused.

However, it's good to know it is working for you so thanks for the note.

I'll do some testing to see if I can replicate the problem. If anyone else has this problem please join the forum and report it. Thank you.
  
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Reply #5 - Jan 15th, 2013 at 8:33pm
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It seem that once I had the UNO plugged in it sort of got initialized and after that seems to remember.  Maybe it is a one-time thing...  Now  when VS and I starts up and shows the UNO is the board, the board list is populated and I'm on my COM12 port.  I did have VS2012 up before I added VM - maybe it needs one live hookup to get things in sync. All seems well now.

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Reply #6 - Jan 15th, 2013 at 8:35pm
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Yes vs probably needed a re-start. Sometimes it doesn't shutdown properly. As you say I think it was a one-off. Thanks for the good reporting
  
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