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Atmel Studio issues compared to Visual Studio 2008
Jul 14th, 2013 at 11:06pm
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I have been using VS2008 and Visual Micro 1305.9.01 for some time now.
I have wanted to try Atmel Studio.
I also want to have two Arduino development system setups on two computers.
That I would be able to pass project between the two.
So I installed Atmel Studio 6.1 on both computers.
I installed Visual Micro 1305.21 on each computer.
The computer that does not have VS2008 on it is work after reinstalling Visual Micro for a second time to get syntax color coding working.
But the computer with VS2008 on it will not work.
The two items that are not working are.
1. Color syntax coding in the ino file (is work in all CPP, C and H files)
2. Task list is not work at all (I use the task list a lot)

I just noticed after syncing the Arduino project between the two computers.
The task list is not working on the computer without VS2008 and just the Atmel Studio 6.1.

This is just an FYI post.  Wink
I'm going to keep using VS2008 and Visual Micro 1305.21.
I will revisit these issues the next time Visual Micro is updated.

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Re: Atmel Studio issues compared to Visual Studio 2008
Reply #1 - Jul 15th, 2013 at 11:47am
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Hi Thanks for the clear post.

The color syntax coding is managed by Atmel Studio, the Visual Micro installer just sets a few registry keys to make this work. Running the installer repair has fixed this issue for the couple of users that have hit it.

Do you have intellisense in ino/pde in Atmel Studio? The intellisense is provided by the VisualAssistX plugin that is installed when you install Atmel Studio. Again Visual Micro just has to set a registry key during install to make this work. A repair of Visual Micro has sometimes failed to extend this registry key and I can provide manual instructions if you do not have intellisense.

Visual Micro has no control over the task manager however I suspect that any problem would be inter-related to one of the two items above.

As you can see these are both minor install items for Visual Micro and it has been annoying that these have failed for a few users.

Please confirm if you have intellisense then I can provide more info.

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Re: Atmel Studio issues compared to Visual Studio 2008
Reply #2 - Jul 16th, 2013 at 12:37am
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Tim
Yes intellisense is working.
I get thing for the board like the serial port.
I also get anything that I have in a cpp or c file.
So function and items in class.
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Re: Atmel Studio issues compared to Visual Studio 2008
Reply #3 - Jul 16th, 2013 at 12:10pm
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Thanks for the info. This issue has normally been resolved by running the installer again and clicking the "Repair" option. Please can you try doing that for the 1305.21 that you have installed. Make sure Atmel is closed when you do this.

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Re: Atmel Studio issues compared to Visual Studio 2008
Reply #4 - Jul 17th, 2013 at 10:57pm
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Tim
Ok I have installed Visual Micro and the color syntax coding in the ino file is now working.
The task list is also working in a fashion.
When the files load there is no task shown.
To get the task list working in each file you need to edit the file by putting a carriage return and then remove it.
Now all the task will show then.
This would be the third time I installed Visual Micro just an FYI.
Also the VS 2008 is still working.

Thanks for the Help!  Smiley

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Reply #5 - Jul 18th, 2013 at 12:33pm
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Thanks for the info. Not sure why you need to run the vm installer 3 times but we will see if we can improve it for future released however it sounds like we are working around some Microsoft or Atmel quirks. 

We might be able to see if there is an automatic way to force the task list to update however, knowing Atmel, I suspect this will be undocumented and if we find a solution it will be by luck  Cry
  
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Re: Atmel Studio issues compared to Visual Studio 2008
Reply #6 - Aug 7th, 2013 at 10:21am
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I guess the Tasklist not being refreshed is a problem with Atmel studio IDE. The presence of task list items (TODO, FIXME) are parsed only when there is some activity in the file as i understand. This should not be the default behavior. As i see it works for me. FYI, if you have a custom tags that you used in Visual studio, then you also need to add these tags in Atmel studio (in case if you haven't already).

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Re: Atmel Studio issues compared to Visual Studio 2008
Reply #7 - Aug 7th, 2013 at 12:48pm
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Soundararajan
You are 100% Coorect.
This is precisely what is going on.

Yes i have put in the custom tags.

Do you think Atmel will be looking in to this?
Thank You
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Re: Atmel Studio issues compared to Visual Studio 2008
Reply #8 - Aug 8th, 2013 at 1:06pm
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Hi,
Unfortunately we cannot. Because the custom tags are saved as part of the IDE, and we cannot read Visual studio's settings when scanning for tagged comments in Atmel studio.  I would say it's technically possible, but we cannot justify the effort for it to the management Sad). So i kindly request you to do it manually.

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Reply #9 - Aug 9th, 2013 at 1:02pm
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Thanks 
Understand, will do.
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