Hello every body,

I'm an electronic engineer with a decent experience in microcontrollers. I'm using visual micro with visual studio to develop arduino applications. It's fairly a good development environment for Arduino (VM + VS), (although not pretty much convinced with the debugger). But for advanced developers, it would be much more appealing to program Arduino using Atmel Studio natively in C++. I mean to use Atmel Studio natively, while including Arduino core libraries and other Arduino libraries into the project (the core still resides in the original Arduino IDE location). I want to use main.cpp directly instead of loop() and setup(), while at the same time, still have access to Arduino API like pinMode() ..etc

This means getting rid of the Arduino sketches and making real professional development in C++ while benefiting from the Arduino community and libraries. This would really be the best of both worlds and a very good choice for professional developers. This will give access to native debugging using Atmel SAMI-ICE JTAG debugger, and simulator and other Atmel Studio features.

I would appreciate a feedback on this elaborating whether Visual Micro will implement this in the future or whether I can do it right now by tweaking the build targets...etc

Regards,,