I get a failure when trying to upload from VS2013 with F5.  When I open the .ino file directly in the Arduino IDE and download it works fine.

Below is the output from VS2013 on a build and download F5.

Uploading to I/O board using 'Arduino as ISP'
Uploader started for board Arduino Nano w/ ATmega328
Uploader sometimes uses programmer name: arduinoisp
Uploader will attempt to use programmer name: arduinoisp
c:\Program Files (x86)\arduino\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avrdude -C"c:\Program Files (x86)\arduino\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf" -v -v -v -v -patmega328p -cstk500v1 -P\\.\COM5 -b19200 SerialTest.hex":i
avrdude: Version 5.11, compiled on Sep  2 2011 at 19:38:36
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

         System wide configuration file is "c:\Program Files (x86)\arduino\hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

         Using Port                    : \\.\COM5
         Using Programmer              : stk500v1
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 19200
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20] 
avrdude: Recv: 
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00

avrdude done.  Thank you.


I also noticed the "L" led lights from the Arduino IDE but never from the VS2013 upload.  Below is the output during upload.