I am using Atmel Studio 6.1 (6.1.2730 - SP2) under Windows 8.1.  I have just upgraded VisualMicro to 1.1401.26.  When I try to create a new project, I get the message 'Unable to create an Arduino project for ATmel Studio'.  My path to the Arduino IDE for 1.5.x (1.5.5-r2) is correctly specified.  Micro Explorer displays all the relevant boards for Arduino 1.5x, but the 'Boards' menu item under Tools/Visual Micro is disabled.

What is the problem?

Here is the trace:

CreateCommandBarItemsPerm      Begin AddinVer=1.1401.26
Permanent Items Setup Requested       - Exiting setup because some controls already exist
CreateCommandBarItemsPerm      End
Create UI command items      Begin
CreateCommandBarItems      Begin AddinVer=1.1401.26
Get Bar      Tools
Create Bar      Tools>Arduino
Adding      Tools>Ports
Adding      Tools>Other Ports
Adding      UI Menu-Board-Items
Adding      UI Menu-SerialPort-Items
Adding      Creating project menu libraries for platform
Adding      ToolBar-Lib-Items
Create UI command items      End

Hi Roger,

Sorry forgot this one.

please confirm if you tried "tools>visual micro>reset user interface"?

If that doesn't fix it then we should assume the upgrade didn't go on properly. Please close atmel studio, run the vm installer and click "Remove" then run again and click Install

Thanks

Hi Roger,

Well done for thinking of so much it is always a frustration when things like this happen.

When Visual Micro creates a new project it copies a blank .cppproj that is installed with the Visual Micro program files. Then Visual Micro attempts to rename the project then add the .ino file(s).

So it should be quite a painless exercise.

After the problem happens please look in the folder of the same name as the sketch you were trying to create. Does the folder exist? Does it contain any files? If there a [sketchname].cppproj? If there is a folder with a .cppproj file what name does the .cppproj have? Can you please zip and email thanks.

Sorry it is info [at] visualmicro.com

Thanks for the zip.

The .cppproj does not exist in the zip you sent.

So we can see that Visual Micro has been unable to copy the blank project into the new sketch folder which is strange.

Can you please confirm "C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Micro\Visual Micro for Arduino\Atmel Studio\Templates\Project\BlankCppProject\BlankCppProject.cppproj" exists?

The installer should have created it automatically. If it doesn't exist my next suggestion will be to download the .msi installer. Click and run selecting "Remove", then right click and "run as administrator" selecting Install

Thanks

Okay thanks.

All this sounds like permissions, nothing has changed between versions as far as this area is concerned.

When you copy the project file manually to the location and rename it to match the sketch folder and sketch.ino name does the open still fail?

Thanks for the feed back.

So File>New>Sketch still fails? This means that Visual Micro is unable to copy the .cppproj to the sketch folder and this must be related to the permissions configuration of your folders. I haven't seen this before but the answer should be clear if you look at your folder permissions. Sorry can't be more specific.

It sounds like that once the .cppproj file is in the folder it works okay so Visual Micro does not have a permissions problem with the sketch folder just with the program files folder

It might be that now you have installed Visual Micro as administrator you can run atmel studio as admin and it will work correctly? Again this would show a strange permissions configuration relating to program files on your pc.

If it continues to fail you can create new sketches using this alternative http://www.visualmicro.com/page/Atmel-Studio-Create-new-project-templates-for-Ar... but existing ones will still need you to add a .cppproj manually to the sketch folder.

I hope this helps

edit: thought strikes me that you simply do not have permissions for your program files folder. Can you right click the folder and give yourself read/copy etc. permissions. If it helps here are the permissions listed against folders in my program files folder

ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES - read-exec/list/read
Users (PC NAME)\Users) read-exec/list/read
CREATOR OWNER special full control
SYSTEM gets everything
Admin gets everything
Trusted installer list/special

If the boards are missing your Arduino exe path is wrong or some other path is wrong

What ide path have you set against which Arduino option? arduino 1.0.x or arduino 1.5.x?

What have you set for the sketchbook folder if anything?

Thanks got the image it all looks okay. 

1)
I assume you tried the "Reset user Interface" option sorry if you have already confirmed this

2)
What about the "projects>add/import sketch library" menu? Do you see all your core and user libraries? Same list as the arduino ide?

3)
When a sketch is open do you have intellisense and can you compile and upload okay?

4)
Do you see the list of boards on the tool bar?

5)
Do you see the applications list on the tool bar. Is that where you have set the arduino 1.5.x location from or did you set it via tools options? It doesn't matter which option you used I am just keen to know the state of the tool bar

6) If you plugin a board does the serial monitor list enable on the tools menu?

7)
If you switch on tools>options>visual micro>user interface>trace and re-start the ide do you see any error reported in an output window?

Thanks