Hi,

Thanks for the clear report. Few questions:-

Have you installed the release or beta version of Visual Micro? (tools>options>visual micro>version>version and minor version?

Can you try to create new empty win32 c++ project using file>new>project. Does the c++ project create ok?

You can see if syntax color is configured using this article
http://www.visualmicro.com/post/2011/10/09/How-to-fix-Arduino-code-color-coding-...

Thanks

Great, thanks

By the way Microsoft release Visual Studio 2013 community this week. It's free, a full version of vs and very good.

Unless you are using xp I recommend updating from 2008

2013 is a lot better than 2012.

The error you see is being returned from the Visual Studio macro that creates a "new empty win32 c++ project not using ATL"

This means the new empty win32 c++ template is not installed correctly. It is part of the standard c++ pack for vs. You should see the same error of you attempt to create the specific project type you mention.

That's what vm does to create an arduino sketch. First it asks Visual Studio to create an empty c++ project then it adds a .ino source file. the folder, the project name and the .ino will all have the same name which causes Visual Micro to manage the project. So it's a simple system 

Hi,

Thanks for the info. You certainly don't need to re-install anything there will be some simple explaination because so many people use Visual Micro.

The test to create an empty c++ project was just to prove you have c++ installed.

Visual Micro will "come alive" if the arduino rule for sketch names are followed along with 1 extra rule:-

• Directory name and sketch.ino must be the same
  The Visual Studio C++ project must have the same name and .vcproj .name

Anyway as for the problem. If you have the energy to look at the following I hope you can see what Visual Micro is trying to do.

How does Visual Micro create a project in Visual Studio

1) Get the Visual Studio C++ templates path

2) Runs the Visual Studio "Launch new project wizard" macro for the "emptyproj.vsz" in the templates path discovered in 1)

The Visual Studio C++ templates path should be easy to find in tools>options and then easy to see if emptyproj.vsz exists?

Thanks

Interesting sounds like something like the windows scripting system needs a repair.

If you don;t get to the bottom of it easily you don't need to create a project you can use the empty one in the zip of this message.

As I said earlier if the right rules are encountered Visual Micro will handle any project as an Arduino project

You can place the project file in any sketch folder and then open it but you must ensure the following before Visual Micro becomes active for the project.

1) Rename the project file to match the sketch name.
2) Open the project with vs 2013 and again rename the project in the solution explorer (vs sometimes allows the project file name and internal name to differ).
3) Close and reopen the project. Visual Micro should automatically add the sketch sources to the project and everything should work.

To create a new project

1) Create a new folder (keep the name less than 30 chars, no spaces, usual arduino naming rules)
2) Copy the project file from the zip to the new folder
3) Rename the project to the same as the folder
4) Open the projectin vs2013
5) Again, rename the project in the solution explorer tree to the same name as the folder in 1)
6) Add a new cpp file to the project
7) Rename the .cpp to .ino and give it the same name as you used in 1)
8) Add a void setup() {} and void loop() {} methods then click compile