Hello,

I am an Atmel Studio user for quite some time. Recently I discovered the advantages of Arduino and I am happy to see that there is a possibility to program them from within Atmel Studio 6.1  via the serial interface using Visual Micro. However, I encountered the following problem: When uploading an Arduino sketch (e.g. one of the example sketches which come along with Visual Micro) from Atmel Studio into the MCU via the serial interface, everything works smooth. Also using the programmer AVR-ISP mkII works fine. But when I try to upload an Atmel Studio project (not an Arduino sketch), Atmel Studio is giving an error message saying that no programmer tool is selected (I use exactly the same setting when successfully uploading an Arduino sketch). Has anybody else encountered a similar problem?

I assume that somewhere in the Arduino sketch it is define, which programming interface should be used. Can somebody indicate, which setting I should use so that I can upload an Atmel Studio project to the Arduino using the serial interface?

I use the following: 
Atmel Studio Version 6.2.1502 SP1
Arduino Uno
Arduino IDE 1.0

Hi Tim,

thanks for your swift answer, although I am not quiet sure what I can learn from the verbose messages...

However, I found another way using avrdude with the option Tools > External tools. To make thinks easier I have created a button linked to the new function, so I just click on it and the .hex will be uploaded on the MCU.

Nevertheless, I would appreciate if an upload of .hex produced by a non-arduino compile would be implemented in the future (it is so much faster to hit F5 instead of clicking around with the mouse )

Cheers,

Tom