Hello,
I'm performing the Visual Micro setup. Everything seems to work well until I get to the point of uploading to my I/O board. At this point, I get the message in Visual Studio:

Uploading to I/O board using 'COM11'
cygwin warning:
  MS-DOS style path detected: C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf
  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /Arduino/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf
  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
    http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
Connecting to programmer: .avrdude: butterfly_recv(): programmer is not responding

The board is an Arduino Uno R3.
My OS is Win7 64-bit with all updates.
My hardware is Dell Latitude D630.
The IDE is Visual Studio 2008 with all updates.

I verified the USB communication link to the board with the Arduino IDE.

I would appreciate any ideas on how to proceed with the upload.

Thanks in advance, Brian

Thank you for the suggestion. I tried restarting the PC, but unfortunately, no luck. I did watch the first YouTube tutorial video. It showed me that I needed to configure the IDE and location in the options under Visual Micro. Unfortunately, it did not get me any further. I still get the message "programmer not responding." Is there something else I might be able to try?

Thank you, Brian