Hi,

I am brand new to using the ARDUINO UNO. I started writing little sketches using the software that came with the kit. It was somewhat painful. Than I found the solution that you are providing, I felt life will get easier. So I installed Visual Micro on to Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, but unfortunately the Gods were not smiling at me.
The Installation seemed to go all right, it compiled fine. But when I was going to upload the Blink LED example I received error massages. I searched for the cause but with no luck.  If possible, could someone help and point me in the right direction?  I thank you for any help that you could provide in solving my problem.

My system specifications are:
     
Windows XP with SP3
Arduino Uno Rev 3
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Visual Micro – as of February 1,2015

Output Error Massages:

Compiling '_01-2_Blink' for 'Arduino Uno'
Binary sketch size: 1,178 bytes (used 4% of a 32,256 byte maximum) (0.27 secs)
Uploading to I/O board using 'COM5'
Upload failed. Did you select the correct upload method for this board?
System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'Boolean System.Threading.WaitHandle.WaitOne(Int32)'.
   at processing.app.debug.Uploader.executeUploadCommand(ICollection commandDownloader, String workingPath)
   at processing.app.debug.AvrdudeUploader.avrdude(List`1 params_Renamed)
   at processing.app.debug.AvrdudeUploader.uploadViaBootloader(String buildPath, String className, Boolean verbose)
   at processing.app.debug.AvrdudeUploader.uploadUsingPreferences(String buildPath, String className, Boolean verbose, Boolean ProgrammerUploadUsing, String mcuProgrammerOverrideName)
   at processing.app.SketchEditor.Upload(Boolean verbose)

I also started getting messages from Visual Studio periodicly

Package Load Failure

Package 'Windows Forms Design Hosting Package' has faild to load properly (GUID = {68939055-38E0-4D17-92CB-8909710D8178}). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart is recommended, due to possible environment corruption. Would you like to disable loading this package in the future? You may use 'devenv /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading. (Y /N )

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 2:04pm:


Hi Tim,

I have tried as you asked but no luck. I have turned on the "Verbose Messages" and this is what I get. 

Compiling 'BlinkWithoutDelay' for 'Arduino Uno'
Build folder: /VMicro/Arduino/Builds/BlinkWithoutDelay/uno
Summary: Header=1 Prototypes=3 Imports=0
Additional Defines: 
Architecture Tools: D:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr\bin\
GCC: 4.3.2
Sketchbook: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Nathan/My%20Documents/Arduino
Core Include Paths
Include Path 'D:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\arduino\cores\arduino'
Include Path 'D:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\arduino\variants\standard'
D:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avr-g++ -c -g -Os -fno-exceptions -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wall -mmcu=atmega328p -DF_CPU=16000000L -MMD -DUSB_VID=null -DUSB_PID=null -DARDUINO=106 -I"D:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\arduino\cores\arduino" -I"D:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\arduino\variants\standard" -o "C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan\Local Settings\Application Data\VMicro\Arduino\Builds\BlinkWithoutDelay\uno\BlinkWithoutDelay.cpp.o"  "C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan\Local Settings\Application Data\VMicro\Arduino\Builds\BlinkWithoutDelay\uno\BlinkWithoutDelay.cpp" 
BlinkWithoutDelay.ino:In function 'void loop()'
BlinkWithoutDelay.ino:54: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions
D:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avr-gcc -Os -Wl,--gc-sections -mmcu=atmega328p -L"C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan\Local Settings\Application Data\VMicro\Arduino\Builds\BlinkWithoutDelay\uno" -o "C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan\Local Settings\Application Data\VMicro\Arduino\Builds\BlinkWithoutDelay\uno\BlinkWithoutDelay.elf" "C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan\Local Settings\Application Data\VMicro\Arduino\Builds\BlinkWithoutDelay\uno\BlinkWithoutDelay.cpp.o" "C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan\Local Settings\Application Data\VMicro\Arduino\Builds\BlinkWithoutDelay\uno\core.a" -lm
D:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avr-objcopy -O ihex -j .eeprom --set-section-flags=.eeprom=alloc,load --no-change-warnings --change-section-lma .eeprom=0 "C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan\Local Settings\Application Data\VMicro\Arduino\Builds\BlinkWithoutDelay\uno\BlinkWithoutDelay.elf" "C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan\Local Settings\Application Data\VMicro\Arduino\Builds\BlinkWithoutDelay\uno\BlinkWithoutDelay.eep"
D:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avr-objcopy -O ihex -R .eeprom "C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan\Local Settings\Application Data\VMicro\Arduino\Builds\BlinkWithoutDelay\uno\BlinkWithoutDelay.elf" "C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan\Local Settings\Application Data\VMicro\Arduino\Builds\BlinkWithoutDelay\uno\BlinkWithoutDelay.hex"
Binary sketch size: 4,642 bytes (used 14% of a 32,256 byte maximum) (0.20 secs)
Uploading to I/O board using 'COM5'
Uploader started for board Arduino Uno
Upload method will be: bootloader
Uploading via Bootloader 
Flushing the serial port
Upload failed. Did you select the correct upload method for this board?
System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'Boolean System.Threading.WaitHandle.WaitOne(Int32)'.
   at processing.app.debug.Uploader.executeUploadCommand(ICollection commandDownloader, String workingPath)
   at processing.app.debug.AvrdudeUploader.avrdude(List`1 params_Renamed)
   at processing.app.debug.AvrdudeUploader.uploadViaBootloader(String buildPath, String className, Boolean verbose)
   at processing.app.debug.AvrdudeUploader.uploadUsingPreferences(String buildPath, String className, Boolean verbose, Boolean ProgrammerUploadUsing, String mcuProgrammerOverrideName)
   at processing.app.SketchEditor.Upload(Boolean verbose)

Hope this helps. 

Yes, when I open COM5 it says 

     Opening port
     Port open

Yes, the arduino ide upload okay.

There are 2 com ports

     COM1 - Communication Port
     COM5 - Arduino Uno

Good news Tim,

It's working!!!

As you suggested I updated Visual Studio 2008 to SP1. By doing this, VS updated .NET 3.5 to Sp1. and that solved it.

Thanks very much for solving my problem. I truly appreciate all the help that you provided.

John