Hi,

Sorry to hear you are having these problems. 

Questions

Would you please confirm the full version number of Atmel Studio from the Help>About screen?

Confirm you can see a list of Arduino boards on the tool bar combo box and also on Tools>Visual Micro>Boards?

Thanks

A short term workaround might be to create an empty 8 bit AVR or a Sam project for any board in a folder of the same name, then delete all the automatically created project sources and add a .ino file of the same name. An 

The basic files required to use a Visual Micro Arduino project are no more than the things:- A directory/folder, project and .ino source all having the same name.

tried the work around with the same result

Continued ...

Sorry what I should have explained is that I am looking for a file/folder permissions problem that is preventing the creation of folders or files. 

Something obvious is causing this problem hence wanting to know about your sketchbook location.

Hi,

Thanks for the good info. Yes it's strange. Did you try running AS6.1 as administrator?

You say the VassistX is missing? Is it missing when you open an empty Atmel 6.1 ide (no files, projects or solutions open)?

Thanks

Hi,

I have just re-looked at your Atmel Studio version number. I suggest upgrading to the latest release to see if this fixes the problem.

For our tests we are currently running the latest version (6.1.2730 - Service pack 2) of Atmel Studio. We only introduced support for Visual Micro in Atmel Studio last year so I hope this is simply a version problem.

You might need to re-install Visual Micro after the Atmel update. If Visual Micro loads and you have color code and intellisense in .ino files then the Visual Micro install is good.

Thanks

Hi,

The VS installs do not conflict but Visual Micro will not work in an express version of Visual Studio. You can probably get an academy version of VS 2010/2012 Pro. If you are running pro then you need to ensure you have the VC++ module installed not just VB.

To be clear about a couple of things

1)
After the creation of a new project fails there is a .cppproj file in the new folder with the correct name? If so then please zip and email the contents of the folder with .ino and .cppproj to info [at] visualmicro.com

2)
Have you installed any other Atmel Gallery extensions?

Thanks

Thanks I have the zip.

It is now clear that the .cppproj I was asking about has not been created. The sketch directory shows 2 files. The arduino .ino source code and an Atmel Studio solution (.asln) but no project.

So we need to look at why the project has not been created. I explained below that when Visual Micro creates a new project it copies an existing empty project from the Visual Micro install folder to the sketch folder.

Before we continue, can you please confirm that this file exists on your machine "C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Micro\Visual Micro for Arduino\Atmel Studio\Templates\Project\BlankCppProject". There is not need to open this file, please confirm it exists.

Thanks

Okay thanks. This sounds like the Ide is unable to copy the file when creating a new project.

In a couple of hours I email you a test sketch. It will contain an Atmel project ready to go so just needs to be opened. The result should show us what might be wrong.

Thanks

Yes thanks. Sounds like we have some strange and simple issues. 

The fact that Visual Micro is unable to copy the cpp to the newly created sketch folder is strange, we haven't had that before and have added better error reporting to this area for the next release.

I suspect other problems will surface when you attempt to open the sketch I send you later. The sketch we send you will already be setup to work in Atmel Studio so it can be opened with the standard Atmel File>Open>project/Solution. Once open we would expect Visual Micro to kick in and handle compilation etc.

I will also test some of the extensions you have listed below to see if there is a conflict.

Thanks for all the info

Screen shots sent - not very interesting

1) I sent two screen shots one using the atmel open solution the other open sketch menu item

2) no project or ino - with visual micro unchecked - the only way to get the ino to display is to double click the .ino file in the Windows explorer which will fire up Studio 6 and display the .ino file - HOWEVER the build menu is missing.

Tim - the zip file you sent me did not contain a ccpproj file.  I am sending back the zip file via email.

Sorry, that makes sense now I have sent another email

Thanks, I see from the screen image you have installed some custom hardware. The next release fixes a bug with custom hardware definitions that attempt to share the variants folder of the main Arduino Ide install.

You can fix this yourself but I suggest you wait for the next release (few days). Until then it would be best to test the system with a standard Arduino board such as the Uno. Maybe this is what you have done hence your report below of a working compile.

With this in mind maybe you can select the uno and re-test the project create but ensure you create a new sketch name each time you test so that we test the entire workflow. Sketch1, sketch2 etc

Your system seems to be working well apart from the auto create of new sketch projects. I am not sure why you had a problem creating a project manually in Atmel Studio. Maybe the next release will give better diagnostics.

So you have a working project which is simply a project and .ino file. Can you add another .ino to the project? Does that work using the Visual Micro right click project name in solution explorer menus "Add>Sketch Code"?

Thanks

Ahaha! This means that Visual Micro can't find your Arduino ide. It sounds like custom hardware is showing so when I asked if the boards menu was populated early on in our discussion you correctly answered yes but I didn't realise you had custom hardware installed which confused the issue.

Please confirm the location where you have installed the Arduino Ide, which version is it? 1.5.x or 1.0.5? It is important that the <Configuration Manager> on the boards list shows the correct path against the correct ide version???

Thanks

Phew!!!!

Best of luck, normally debugging with Visual Micro is less of an adventure than this 

I will add better error messages