VS Arduino - Unable to setup debug listener

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Felice Newbies Offline Posts: 7 Location: Florence (Italy) Joined: Mar 22^nd, 2013	Unable to setup debug listener Apr 11^th, 2013 at 6:01pm	Print Post
	Hi, I was using the debugger on VS 2010 and it was working well. In order to solve the problem with the intellisense not working on such version of VS I have installed Visual Studio 2012 and the intellisense is now working. The debugger is not working on VS 2012 and not anymore on VS 2010, I get the error "Unable to setup the debug listener". I tried to install a fresh .net 3.5 but it does give problems "Installation error"! So now I am stuck. The debugger does not work anymore on any of the VS versions. Do I really need the .net 3.5 to use the debugger? Is there a different solution? I would appreciate your support. Kind regards Felice


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12188 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Unable to setup debug listener Reply #1 - Apr 11^th, 2013 at 7:56pm	Print Post
	Hi there, It would have been easier to look at why the intellisense was not working in VS and would be an easy fix Installing VS 2012 does sometimes know out some registry settings. However both 2010 and 2012 will work together so please follow this guide. Uninstall both the visual micro addin and debugger from control panel add/remove program features. Re-install both using codeplex and the beta page. When VS starts confirm that you see a list of boards in the drop down boards list. If the boards list is disabled click "Tools>Addin Manager" and switch on the checkbox for the Visual Micro Addin. Test that vs intellisense is working correctly and that you can compile and upload. Then try the debugger.


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Felice Newbies Offline Posts: 7 Location: Florence (Italy) Joined: Mar 22^nd, 2013	Re: Unable to setup debug listener Reply #2 - Apr 12^th, 2013 at 6:48am	Print Post
	Hi there, thanks for your reply. I followed the procedure on VS 2010 after I have unistalled VS 2012, unistalling both visualmicro ad the debugger. I restarted the pc and reisntalled the visual micro. I tested it and it is compiling and uploading to the board. I then re-installed the debugger and tested with a break point on a variable. The problem is still the same. Kind regards Felice


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12188 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Unable to setup debug listener Reply #3 - Apr 12^th, 2013 at 3:56pm	Print Post
	Hi, Thanks fir the screen shot. The problem is that the arduino project is not the "Startup project". You can see that the windows C# project name is in bold which means that it is the "debug>start project". Right click the arduino project and set it as the "Startup Project" and it should work. fyi I will remove the message you are seeing in the next release. The message actually means that debug is not active even though the arduino project is set to compile in debug mode.


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Felice Newbies Offline Posts: 7 Location: Florence (Italy) Joined: Mar 22^nd, 2013	Re: Unable to setup debug listener Reply #4 - Apr 12^th, 2013 at 7:20pm	Print Post
	My friend, you are magic! It is now working. I just need to sort out the intellisense on VB2010 because I am not willing to change to VB 2012 that caused me all these problems. But I will open a new thread for that. Thanks a lot, your tool is really nice. Kind regards Felice


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12188 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Unable to setup debug listener Reply #5 - Apr 12^th, 2013 at 8:06pm	Print Post
	Great. Thanks


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12188 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Unable to setup debug listener Reply #6 - Apr 12^th, 2013 at 8:16pm	Print Post
	ps: I agree we should get the intellisense working for you in 2010. It might just be a matter of switching to a different arduino board and back again. However the 2012 intellisense works better in as much as it shows first level intellisense automatically as soon as you start typing. In VS 2010 you have to press CTRL+J to see intellisense unless you have typed a "." or "->" etc.


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Felice Newbies Offline Posts: 7 Location: Florence (Italy) Joined: Mar 22^nd, 2013	Re: Unable to setup debug listener Reply #7 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 2:35pm	Print Post
	Thanks. Is in your plans to make it better for VS2010?


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12188 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Unable to setup debug listener Reply #8 - Apr 14^th, 2013 at 3:36pm	Print Post
	Hi, If you mean more automatic instead of pressing CTRL+J, I would like to but the Visual Micro plugin doesn't have any control over this. In the background, the plugin simply re-configures the project paths where VS looks for code (and other project level C++ settings), then leaves the rest to the standard VS C++ intellisense system. I find 2012 works the best but I was concerned that you reported intellisense to not work in 2010. It sounds like it is working but that it is slightly different 2010/2012?
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