Hi David,

This happens when Visual Studio informs Visual Micro that the plugin is not installed. This problem results normally from another misbehaving extension or plugin.

You can reset the menus and commands by adding this to the shortcut you use to open Visual Studio. The item in square brackets will already exist in the short cut and might be surrounded by quotes. Add the /reset... after the quotes

[path to devenv.exe] /resetaddin Visual.Micro.Visual.Studio.Arduino.Helper

This will fix the appearance of multiple menus but not the cause.

What other extensions and plugins do you have installed?
What is the full version number of the Visual Studio Ide you are using?

Thanks

Hi,

Sorry I am getting confused. All the menus items you have mentioned are standard Visual Studio menu items. I didn't read the list properly previously.

None of these items are created or maintained by Visual Micro so this indicates a problem with your vs2008 install or another extension causing the problem.

Debug existing sketch is a Vm option but I think the problem lies elsewhere.

Please upload a screen shot

Thanks

Yes I can see the problem. For me the last vs item on the debug menu is duplicated many times and also the visual micro "Debug Exiting Sketch".

We did start using the debug menu in the last version by adding the "debug existing" menu item but forgot to check vs2008. Visual studio can be quite fussy in different ways through the different versions.

We will try to release a fix over the next week. For now you can cleanup the menu like this:-

Click "Tools>Customise"

Click the "Commands Tab"

Click "Rearrange Commands"

In the drop down list at the top of the screen selected the menu bar called "Debug"

Select the first of a repeated command and then click the "Delete" button until all but one version of each command remains

If you delete/remove too many menu items during rearrange then you can add them back in from the previous dialog.

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