Hello, this is intensely frustrating:  If I use a project that works perfectly fine in Arduino 1.6.6, I get a raft of errors where visual studio/micro cannot find the include path.  To make it work, I have to prepend my includes with a subfolder name (which then makes it *not* work in Arduino).

I have tried to Add the library  from the Visual Micro menu, which dutifully places normal looking #includes in my file, but they are then not found and cannot compile.

If I can get the IDE to not bark at me by manually adjusting paths, I then also end up with a lot of linker errors with less than helpful output, that ends with:

collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status


Am I missing something?  This seems like includes should be pretty straightforward concept.  Any suggestions would be welcome.

I like the concept of this extension since I'm a professional developer and use Visual Studio day in and day out for C++ and C#, but find this cryptic partial support maddening.

Hi Jim,

Ray is right. There should be no include paths required. Same as Arduino and it would be useful to have an example.

I am going to guess (maybe wrong) that you are talking about user library paths. If so then it is important that you have not set a "Sketchbook" path in the Visual Micro Ide Locations. This will ensure the default of documents\arduino for the path and user libs will then be found in document\arduino\libraries.

If you change the sketchbook in the arduino ide then visual micro will detect that change the next time it starts. This would ensure the same compilation conditions as you have within the arduino ide. However as a new user please leave empty until it the workings of Arduino are understood.

Hope to have an example of hear the confusion is resolved.