Tim
Here's some initial feedback on AS6.1 and the VM beta. Colour coding works for language keywords in .ino files but intellisense doesn't seem to. In VS2010 both work fine. I suspect that the interaction with the Visual Assist extension causes the problem but I can't easily disable it in AS. As another example the "right click - GoTo implementation" doesn't work in .ino files.

The AS project files are created and compilation is all OK.

Getting everything to work in AS6.1 work be great - I use the ASF wizard and the LUFA USB library to programme the 16U4 and an Arduino sketch for the 328 on an Arduino R3 board - and have to swap between AS and VS.

Keep up the good work.
Andy

Andy, thanks very much for the great feed back.

1)

Thanks for making that installer issue clear. Yes, in Atmel Studio the "Tools>Options>Add-in/macros and locations>add-in locations" list should contain an entry that points to the location where the visual micro application is installed. The installer is failing to add this entry correctly on some systems.

2)

I'll do some more testing over the next few days to see why that might be happening to your system. Here are some random thoughts/info.

Q The intellisense issue might that vm is failing to update the Atmel project cpp includes. Can you check the project properties please?

Q: I don't have the issue myself. Have you applied the Atmel project system patch from the thread below/above?

Q Have you tried switching board and back again then re-starting Atmel Studio. Does this fix things?

There are some known refresh bugs with the intellisense in Atmel Studio, Atmel are looking into this not just for vm but generally. 

Info

Having said that I've worked around the problems in the main so would not expect this issue. 

When I first started trying to hook this up I had to re-start Atmel Studio for intellisense changes to be recognized by visual assist. I also tried switch visualassistx caching off but it didn't help. 

In the end I found the best solution, while we wait for a fix from atmel, would be to add every possible include path to the project options so that when a library is included the intellisense would work immediately. This turned out to work well enough, for now, in my tests but is not great. I think Atmel will improve on this issue quite soon but that's just a guess.

So all we need to do to ensure we have done our part is to see if the project include paths are correct after an Atmel Studio restart. If they are not correct (arduino libs and ESPECIALLY the arduino core etc) then I have a vm bug.

Q Can you tell me how you created the atmel project? 

Did vm create the project automatically when you opened a pde/ino, or did you use "file>new arduino project" or did you have an existing atmel project and included a .ino/.pde as the same name as the project?

Sorry for the dump and all the questions

Thanks

Please email your atmel studio project to info [at] visualmicro.com

If possible email the entire sketch folder and the "visual micro" sub folder zipped.

Thanks

Q: Did you install visual micro before or after running the Atmel Studio install/upgrade?

Hi
The method used to create the project doesn't seem to alter the behaviour or provide a fix. All the includes look OK as well. 

I also observed that changing the extension from .ino to .cpp works. I investigated a bit and noted that VS2010 has .ino and .pde registered as C/C++ valid extensions but AS6.1 doesn't allow that in Tools / Options / Editor. Obvious playing with AS6.1 package definition files and a AtemlStudio /ResetSettings doesn't seem to let me get round the .ino registrations.
Hope that helps
Andy

I cannot install this beta. An error 1001 occurs. "InstallUtilLib.dll unknown error". I try to install on Windows 8 pro and AS 6.1.

@Dennis, sorry missed your message. The plugin ignored all Atmel templates so a clean install is not required

Tim
I've just completed the installation of the latest beta. For safety I uninstalled all VM components and manually removed empty toolbars, re-applied the latest AS6.1 patch and then installed VM beta and ... success.
Both VS2010 and ASS6.1 seem to be working fine - intellisense on .ino and .cpp files for both and the build is the same for both on one of my larger projects.

Great work
Andy