IDE: Visual Studio Community Edition 2013
VisualMicro: Latest release build as of yesterday
Arduino IDE: 1.06

After installing MSVS and VM programs yesterday, I can see the core library files but the user library file option is grayed out. 

I have tried specifying the library location in the Configuration Manager (C:\Users\Khalil\Documents\Arduino) but that also does not work.

The library is located by the Arduino IDE and if I specifically map the library in the #include directive in MSVS, it also works.

The original library contained "-" but I copied it and renamed it and that didnt work either (I saw in the release notes that this was an issue previously).

At a loss as to why this is not working. I can work around it for now but is there something I am missing?

Thanks,
Khalil

Hi Tim, 

Thanks for the quick reply. Installing the beta does fix the issue. I can now see the library in the Intellisense drop down and can reference it.

Just one other question, maybe I am not understanding the functionality of the software but should I not also see this library under the USER option in Project > Add/Import Sketch Library?

Thanks,
Khalil

Thanks for the trace.

can you please confirm the full location of your user libraries folder

thanks

Okay please switch on "tools>visual micro>verbose messages"

then run a build and email the output 

Thanks

You can ignore the last post. It does work, I just needed to Rebuild the Toolchain after including the new library.

Thanks for your help.
Khalil

Hi khalilm,

I have looked into this and the Arduino Ide does not work in the way you had configured your user library. Your library is called "Metro" and was incorrectly contained in a sub folder called Metro-Arduino-Wiring-master. Having a library in a sub folder is an invalid configuration for 1.0.6. 

I think the Arduino Ide handles the problem in a confusing manner. This is what happens with you example in the Arduino Ide ... 

Arduino does not show the correct "Metro" library on the user libraries menu, instead it incorrectly shows "Metro-Arduino-Wiring-master". If you click the "Metro-Arduino-Wiring-master" library to insert it into a sketch then nothing happens and the correct #import(s) are not automatically included in the sketch for you.

If you manually add a valid Arduino #include into the sketch, such as #imports <Metro.h>  then one of two things can happen...

1) without adding any code that uses the Metro library then the Arduino Ide will compile the sketch okay but will show a report that it was unable to locate the Metro.h file.

2) if you add any code that uses the Metro library then the compile fails


This is why Visual Micro only shows valid libraries and I am looking forward to adding support for an extra level of sub folders because the library zips from GIT and many other places always have the extra level. I find it really annoying tooo! 

hey no probs I am just pleased the confusion is clear it is a big weakness of the arduino ide at the moment.

Thanks for the good reports it's always easy to find the solution with the right info.

Best of luck

I may be grasping at straws here but it seems that if there is an error in the compile of a library, the solution never recovers. It continues to generate an errors in the last include even though the Arduino IDE compiles it without error.

I dont know if that is an error of VM or VS?

Hi,

Sorry for the confusion.

Here is the output from VS. Arduino shows no errors compiling the same file. 

There were no errors in the code UNTIL I added a USER library that couldn't compile because it also needed the ETHERNET support library. From that point on the project will not compile.

I even tried removing the added user library and ETHERNET library and it still generates the errors. Due to the length of the output I have emailed it to you.

Thanks,
Khalil

Hi, which board do you have selected in the arduino ide?

Thanks