VS Arduino - Build and Upload Buttons Greyed Out after VS 2015 update

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Mat Junior Member Offline Posts: 10 Joined: Dec 22^nd, 2015	Build and Upload Buttons Greyed Out after VS 2015 update Dec 22^nd, 2015 at 1:47pm	Print Post
	Hi Everyone, I updated Visual Studio 2015 and it seems like it broke VisualMicro. Ever since then I cannot get the build and upload buttons to be active again. I tried re-installing the extension but that didn't help. It seems like the configuration is still the same as it was before. The Arduino IDE 1.6.3 still works standalone. I'm going to try a system restore to before the update. Please let me know if you need more info, I'll be standing by.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Build and Upload Buttons Greyed Out after VS 2015 update Reply #1 - Dec 22^nd, 2015 at 1:51pm	Print Post
	Thanks, already looking into it and should have a solution during the next few days. You don't actually need the buttons because the standard VS Build>Build and Start>Debugging (F5) perform the same tasks.


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Mat Junior Member Offline Posts: 10 Joined: Dec 22^nd, 2015	Re: Build and Upload Buttons Greyed Out after VS 2015 update Reply #2 - Dec 22^nd, 2015 at 3:43pm	Print Post
	Plugin wouldn't load after the restore process so I reinstalled it and got back to where I was in the first place. This time I tried to build through workflows other than the button (right clicking on the project, project-> build, etc...) It doesn't see the project correctly because it isn't counting changes I make to the .ino file. Since installing VisualMicro the first time I changed the .ino filetype association. I just changed it to VS. Let's see if that helps... Maybe when I updated VS it looked for that association and that's when/why it broke.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Build and Upload Buttons Greyed Out after VS 2015 update Reply #3 - Dec 22^nd, 2015 at 4:36pm	Print Post
	Don't bother looking for things to change. It's supposed to be easy. Visual studio doesn't know about arduino projects. Visual Micro determines if it should kick in and do stuff or not. That determination is supposed to be simply. Is the project a VC++ project, does it contain an .ino of the same name and is it located in a folder on disk of the same name. What will help is to see a build output. Thanks


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Arjuino Newbies Offline Posts: 7 Location: Netherlands Joined: Dec 16^th, 2015	Re: Build and Upload Buttons Greyed Out after VS 2015 update Reply #4 - Dec 22^nd, 2015 at 8:26pm	Print Post
	I've got it to work now. No matter what I include in Reporting it will compile correctly. But the buttons are still grayed out and so are the status ticks in the Visual Micro menu. So it's a bit of hit and miss to see what is active or not. To you, as the maker, things might look simple but a week ago I'd never heard of Wire, Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Micro. VS2008 was the last VS I worked with (later versions were too slow) and together with the inbetween state of the current Visual Micro and ditto Windows 10 it is all rather confusing and I have no clue what is done by what and why.


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