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Jan 11th, 2015 at 2:46am
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I have the latest version of VM integrated with VS2008.  I have been using VS2008 for years and have found it to be very robust and reliable, but I'm having real problems getting VM to work reliably with this IDE.  If I right-click anywhere in a sketch, it will hang/crash VS2008 about every 2nd or 3rd time I open a project.   

Once it hangs up in a project, then it will hang every time thereafter on a right-click.  The only way to recover from this is to start a new sketch project and cut/paste the entire existing sketch into the new project.  This will work for a few times, and then a right-click will hang the system again.  This has become very frustrating and time consuming.  I hate the idea of moving to VS2013 'Community Edition' (or whatever it is) just to make VM work, but if that is what I have to do I will Sad.

Has anyone gotten VM to work reliably with VS2008?

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Reply #1 - Jan 11th, 2015 at 3:52am
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Hi Frank,

Sorry to hear of these issues. 

I haven't heard of that happening in vs2008 or any other ide before.

A few questions...

1) Have you been using c++ in vs2008 for years or just for Arduino?

2) Visual Micro does not attach to any editor events such as click, keystroke, right click etc. Do you have any other extensions or add-ins installed? If so what are they?

3) Visual Micro does not add to or alter the right click menu in the vs code editor. Can you please show a screen image of your right click menu. Is there any non-standard VS menu items showing on the menu?

4) Out of interest, when you right click what are you selecting? Might not be important but thought I would ask.

5) What is the full release number and sp of your vs 2008?

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Reply #2 - Jan 12th, 2015 at 12:49am
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Thanks for the quick response:

1:  Been using VS2008 for years for many C++ projects, and just recently added the VM integration to do some Arduino work.  As far as I can remember, I never had 'hang' problems before this, but most of my prior VS2008 work has been on previous computers (this is a fairly new laptop).  I suppose it is possible that I didn't get VS2008 transplanted properly from my last machine, but everything seems to work great except for Arduino sketches.

2:  The Add-in Manager only shows 'Visual Micro Arduino' - nothing else.

3:   I have attached a screenshot of the right-click menu as it shows up from inside a sketch (when it works, that is)

4:  It doesn't seem to matter where the focus is when I right-click.  It either works normally, or hangs immediately and completely (the right-click menu never shows up - it just hangs immediately and never returns).

5:  Full VS2008 release info:   V9.0.21022.8 RTM,  .NET V3.5 SPI

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Reply #3 - Jan 12th, 2015 at 12:31pm
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Hi,

I see you are running the RTM version of Vs 2008

My 2008 is the SP1 version which normally has a lot of bug fixes 9.0.30729 SP1

The only thing that vm does for .ino files is to associate them to c++ in the registry so that color coding and intellisense works

I see your right click menu is missing some menu items at the end of it, RunToCursor/Cut/Copy/Paste/Outlining

This is just a guess but I think applying the updates to your pc will hopefully solve the issue.

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Reply #4 - Jan 12th, 2015 at 2:32pm
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The right-click menu does contain all the choices you mentioned - image got cut off while I was cropping it to get under the 250Kbyte max image size Sad 

Thanks for the suggestion about SP1 -  I've installed it and will keep an eye out for (hopefully positive) changes Wink

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Ok thanks, look forward to hearing how it goes
  
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