Hi,

Yesterday I upgraded my development VM to Windows 8.1. Then this afternoon, installed VS2013, uninstalled 2012, and 'repaired' the install for Visual Micro.

I'm now seeing very similar behaviour, but not quite exactly the same as this thread:
http://www.visualmicro.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1381271140/1#1

If my addin is enabled then my menus all vanish except for the submenu parents (if that makes sense). If I disable the adding then all the menus appear but are all disabled (obviously). Doesn't seem to make any difference if an Arduino is actually plugged in or not.

Any ideas please? I've been through all the guides that I could find here for resetting the add-in, etc. and so far nothing has helped.

Screenshot of the problem (hopefully!):

No worries - fortunately I had the foresight to create a snapshot of my virtual machine before uninstalling 2012

Hmm, actually just restored my snapshot to the point I have 2012 and 2013 installed and the problem is still there in both versions.

Sadly I didn't check if it still worked after installing w8.1

Already tried all that on both versions several times. Already running as an administrator account but did "run as administrator" too just for good measure.

I'm just doing a "repair" of the VS2012 install so watch this space as they say...

Hmm, yes. I just did.

OK, so repair of VS didn't help. Repair of VM hasn't helped and still not working. I'm beginning to be at a bit of a loss now.

I've also started to get "Can't find localised resources" when I open my project as well but I've only just tried to open the project so I don't know at what point that started.

Going to take a break now!

Will do and report back later...

[EDIT] OK, not so sure it's directly likely to be related but it points me in the direction of the registry config so it's probably worth me backing up that registry section and then clearing the config section of the registry and letting it rebuild it. I can always re-apply the backup.

Other than that, I guess I can uninstall 2012 and then install it back again.

Maybe it's a problem with windows 8.1? All our machines were stolen during a break in a few days ago so we will surely have some 8.1 machines VERY soon.

Currently the only logging is via "tools>options>visual micro>user interface>trace", we might need to add something extra to find the problem.

Maybe we should step back a little and check your visual Micro Arduino paths? What paths (program and sketch folder) have you got configured and for which Arduino version (s)?

Thanks

It's annoying about the equipment but no big deal. I have to sign off for today shortly but I have a few questions/observations. 

EDIT
I don't recognize any of that solution setup for Arduino. You image shwos two Csharp projects. Our projects are C++

1)
Can we test an arduino app by closing the solution you have open and using file>open to open the .ino from the blink example. What happens, are you prompted to create an arduino project?

2)
What is showing on the Tools>Visual Micro>Boards?

3)
Do you have the boards and serial ports tool bar? If so do you see the button with the "?"

Thanks

Hi,

No Visual Studio doesn't know anything about a Visual Micro application. We simply use standard Visual Studio C++ applications. So the "Application not installed" message would suggest that the VS C++  module is not installed.

We also only ever see the Error: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80041FFF when the C++ module is not installed. 

From your good report and I see that Visual Micro is installed.

Can you confirm that C++ is installed? Maybe the Help>About window will confirm which C++ version?

Thanks

OK, update...

Happy to report that after an uninstall of VS2012 and a re-install of VS2012 everything was back to normal with Visual Micro and my solution all working perfectly in both VS2012 and also VS2013.

Just for giggles i then did a snapshot of my Virtual Machine (did I mention I use OS X & Macs?) and then uninstalled VS2012. VS2013 broke as per my original post. I'm not going to draw any conclusions since I don't know how the plugin works and builds internally but it certainly looks from a lay-man's perspective like there's a dependency on VS2012 there whether intentional or not.

I would certainly like to uninstall VS2012 as it's a waste of a lot of disk space to have them both installed but until there's a solution I've reverted my snapshot so I can progress and will continue to have both installed until I hear otherwise.

Incidentally, I believe my lack of C++ was down to something I did right at the beginning. Just as I started to uninstall VS2012 I cancelled the uninstall as I'd remembered to do a snapshot. I think that messed up my install. Worth remembering - don't cancel a VS uninstall

Thanks,
Martin.