Hi, 
The following is with Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate.

I just installed the latest Visual Micro.  I have a non-standard Library that I am trying to use.

I cannot use it because it is not under my Sketchbook path, so I want to add it to this project.

Hi,

The way Arduino works is that you can put libraries under sketchbook/libraries folder. The library folder must have the same name as a .h file within the library folder.

There are 3 revisions of Arduino library structure published by Arduino.cc, Visual Micro supports all 3.

Currently Visual Micro performs an Arduino compatible compile and ensures that sketch remains compatible with the Arduino Ide. This means that we must be able to work without project or solution files so the compile must be able to work without modification to paths.

Because of the Arduino rules Visual Micro reflects the correct settings to the VS project to ensure intellisense works. This means that Visual Micro manages the pre-processor, build properties and library paths. This is why you can not alter them manually and anyway with the way the Arduino build process works it would not make sense to alter the project paths manually.

In future versions of Visual Micro we do intend to open up this area but it might also involve working in cpp only and not .ino. The combination of all .ino files for the build process is one of the reasons a temp build folder is required and a main reason for issue with paths.

I hope this makes sense.

Hi,

Sorry.

Maybe it is easier to say this...

Please visit arduino.cc to understand the Arduino structure supported for libraries. 

Visual Micro follows the Arduino rules.

User libraries are fully supported under the Arduino rules (not the Visual Studio rules which are not compatible with Arduino).

Thanks

Oh great that's a relief that you are getting emails!

Thanks again