Hello I have a Arduino Uno clone. I can burn the bootloader and upload my sketch using the Arduino IDE just fine. I can also use Visual Micro with Atmel Studio 6.2, along with a USBTinyISP to upload my sketch without problems.

But When I try to burn the bootloader using Visual Mirco I get the following error:
System.Exception: Burn bootloader failed with an exception ---> processing.app.debug.RunnerException: avrdude: can't open input file {runtime.platform.path}/bootloaders/optiboot/optiboot_atmega328.hex: No such file or directory
avrdude: read from file '{runtime.platform.path}/bootloaders/optiboot/optiboot_atmega328.hex' failed

I have placed the path to the optiboot_atmega328.hex in the project toolchain-> directories path. But still get the error.

If I burn the boot loader with the Arduino IDE and then try to upload the sketch using Visual Micro, via the USB port, I get the following error:

avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00

I really want to move away from the Arduino IDE to Atmel Studio. Any Ideas on how to fix these issues?

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jpitz wrote on Jul 10^th, 2014 at 12:04am:


Question 1.  Arduino 1.5.x is set in the Visual Toolbar

Question 2.  The boot loader can be burned from the Arduino IDE,  just not Atmel Studio with the Visual Micro Plugin.

All default paths were used when Installing Atmel Studio and Visual Micro.

It looks like a configuration issue with Visual Micro

Thanks

Hello,  I can burn the boot loader using the Arduino IDE and upload the sketch using either the bootloader through the Arduino IDE, using the USB port,  or using the USBTinyISP as the programmer. 

If I an burning the bootloader then I of course want to use just the USB port without a programmer. 

Thanks