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Don29 Newbies Offline Posts: 4 Joined: Aug 28^th, 2014	SOLVED - Worked for Months and now won't compile Feb 7^th, 2015 at 3:32pm	Print Post
	I have had this working for month. I didn't use it for two weeks, went back and recompiled with out changing anything, and has all error on the Linker. The first error I get in the output is: Target "PreBuildEvent" skipped, due to false condition; ('$(PreBuildEvent)'!='') was evaluated as (''!=''). So I think something has been corrupted in the IDE. Any clues???
	« Last Edit: Feb 15^th, 2015 at 6:50pm by Tim@Visual Micro »

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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Worked for Months and now won't compile Reply #1 - Feb 7^th, 2015 at 4:24pm	Print Post
	Hi Don, The error means that Visual Micro is not active, therefore Visual Studio attempts a windows c++ compile instead of Arduino. One possibility is that some older versions of Visual Micro used to force free users to upgrade to a version that was less than a year old. This was because often people upgrade their Arduino Ide to latest or beta but forget to upgrade Visual Micro but we gave up on that idea in later versions If auto update is not blocked, you should have seen a few dialog message about upgrades and an output window message the first time running after expiry. The the reasons for this behavior would be that Visual Micro is disabled in "tools>addin manager" or that the sketch folder name does not match the name of a .ino file.


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Don29 Newbies Offline Posts: 4 Joined: Aug 28^th, 2014	Re: Worked for Months and now won't compile Reply #2 - Feb 8^th, 2015 at 12:46am	Print Post
	Thank you for your help. I have not changed the file location, folder name, or project name so that could not be the issue. I went to Tools\|Add-in Manager and the Visual Micro Adruino is listed and has a check mark in the box next to it, the box under Startup is checked, and the box under Command Line is not checked. I am getting a popup box when I start AtmelStudio that is a "Buy Visual Micro" add that started appearing when the problem started. Could my Visual Micro plug-in be corrupt? If so how would I re-install it? I have not done any AtmelStudio updates, but I wonder if that would help or just add more issues.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Worked for Months and now won't compile Reply #3 - Feb 8^th, 2015 at 1:03am	Print Post
	Hi, You just need to update to the latest release of visual micro and it will be fine. Do you know how to do that?


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Don29 Newbies Offline Posts: 4 Joined: Aug 28^th, 2014	Re: Worked for Months and now won't compile Reply #4 - Feb 8^th, 2015 at 2:04pm	Print Post
	I have not update Visual Micro before, and I have not updated my Atmel Studio 6.2 either. On the Atmel Studio I just need to click on the update now button, but I am not sure on the Visual Micro. Also, should the AtmelStudio be update first before updating the Visual Micro version? Is updating Visual Micro just a matter of going to the Extension Manger and clicking on the Download button?


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Worked for Months and now won't compile Reply #5 - Feb 8^th, 2015 at 2:25pm	Print Post
	Hi don, yes just the extension or use the download page on visualmicro.com


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Don29 Newbies Offline Posts: 4 Joined: Aug 28^th, 2014	Re: Worked for Months and now won't compile Reply #6 - Feb 8^th, 2015 at 3:43pm	Print Post
	Yeah! That worked. I guess I will update my Atmel Studio now as well. Thank you very much for the help.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	SOLVED: Worked for Months and now won't compile Reply #7 - Feb 8^th, 2015 at 5:59pm	Print Post
	Great, I wouldn't worry about upgrading atmel unless you find an issue that it would solve.
	« Last Edit: Feb 15^th, 2015 at 6:48pm by Tim@Visual Micro »

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