Hi,

Thanks for the detailed report.

You will only be prompted for the arduino location if it has not previously been set. You can change it in Tools>Options>Application Locations

It sounds like the addin is having problems loading. You could try running the resetaddin as detailed below but I am not sure this will allow it to load correctly. 

The invalid setup message was added to the plugin for the couple of users that were hitting this problem, so that we could more easily know when we were hitting this problem. Otherwise things just didn't work as you have also described.

This is a Visual Studio problem and possibly connected to Visual Studios use of OLE for the command bars and menus. To cut a long story short I would initially suggest running a windows update and ensuring that any other versions of microsoft applications and especially visual studio are fully up to date with service packs.

Can you confirm if you downloaded atmel with shell or without, which version of atmel 6.1 you have installed, which version of windows you are using and when you last ran all the updates and applied all the service packs?

Running the visual micro or atmel installers will not fix this problem (I am sorry to say), in fact the mv installer is very simple and you certainly have it installed correctly.

Looking forward to an update

Thanks

/resetaddin

ps: please also confirm what other extensions or addin you have loaded in atmel studio. you can see these via Tools>Addin manager and Tools>Extension Manager

Hi,

The location you set for the arduino ide is not removed when you uninstall. It is a simple reg key which will not cause any of the program to persist. Sorry for the confusion but vm is installed just fine.

The \resetaddin example in the link clearly shows the atmel studio syntax required to reset the addin. Remember that Atmel Studio is visual studio so visual micro uses a common object name but the examle clearly states how to ensure that atmel is passed the /resetaddin command

The addin is not an extension, it is an addin and should appear in Tools>Addin Manager"?

If you have Tools>Arduino then the addin is loaded correctly.

Did you do a windows update? Do any other addins appear in Tools>Addin Manager

Thanks

Hi,

Yes this will not show up in installed extension but it ill show up in "Tools>Addin Manager".

I know the addin is installed because of the error you see. This error means that Visual Studio is having a problem with the management of its tool bars and menus.

If the location you have entered for the arduino exe is wrong it will not cause this problem. To answer your question, the addin looks to see if a few known arduino folders exist below the "exe" folder. When you entered this location it did not cause any additional installation to be performed. This location is not critical to the basic initialization of the addin and you have having an initialization problem.

Please check to see if any other addins are shown in Tools>Addin Manager. Thanks

Thanks for the info Ed,

This is not going to be very helpful, I am sorry you are having this trouble...

Atmel Studio and Visual Studio both use the office command bar system. This is where the problem lies. I believe you have some stray old office automation files on your computer that are prone to this issue.

It is certainly a weak area of VS although fortunately for others, most are not affected by this problem.

In the couple of reported cases users have not been clear about what Microsoft updates they ran or what ms office products they re-installed to fix the problem but they seemed to know some history that helped them get to the bottom of things

All I can say to help, which is not much, is that visual micro and atmel studio are installed correctly. It is some other low level shared microsoft office components that are most likely causing the problem. It might even be that you previously installed a version of visual studio such as express that needed to be updated. 

If so, then I guess all you can do is re-install the software you uninstalled and hope that the correct components are update via windows or office update.

Sorry it's a bit lame but it's out of my control. Maybe you can summarize which ms apps you cleared from your machine. Painful I know!

how may i put a screen shot of the MS apps?

pls email to info [at] visualmicro.com, but also answer questions below about what you have uninstalled?

Hi Ed,

I don't think it is directly the vs stuff that is a problem it is some shared components.

Please try an office update, thanks

Oh, it used to be different. Maybe you have to click about windows update these days to allow office updates

but you do have quite a few ms dev tools in the list

I notice you have the vs 2010 tools for office runtime installed, might be worth checking it is on the latest version

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35594

also look to see how to ensure all the other office and vs components are up to date.  (VS 2010 on SP1 is fine)

I have added your image to your previous post which you can remove if required but it is useful