Hi,

You do not need to associate any files to make this work.

The intellisense user interface in Atmel Studio is handled by the VisualAssistX (vax) plugin. The Visual Micro installer is supposed to add a registry setting to let vax know we want intellisense for .ino files.

You could try uninstalling visual micro and running the install again if that does work we will tell you how to manually add the .ino files to the vax intellisense list

Thanks

Okay we need to try two things. Hopefully the first is good enough otherwise I will email you a reg file.

Run RegEdit and find this key

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Atmel\Whole Tomato\Visual Assist X\AtmelStudio61]

Look for the property called ExtSourceAvr

Add ;.ino to the end of the list of extensions against this property. You can also add ;.pde if you work with older arduino sketches

To be clear, after installing vm on my machine my ExtSourceAvr property contains a value of:-

.c;.cpp;.cc;.cxx;.tli;.pde;.ino; 

All the usual warnings about being careful when editing the registry apply along with its' your responsibility 

Great, thanks for the feedback. 

I agree, the installer needs looking at. Why it works for so many and fails for a few is a huge mystery that will probably have a really obvious answer once found 

please try downloading the install and then try to "run it as administrator" thanks