It appears that the debugging tool uses the serial port to connect to the target. But I would like to debug using the simulator, which does not appear to be available using Visual Studio and the Visual Micro extension. I am able to debug simple projects using Atmel Studio and the simulator, but I have been unable to get either 6.2 or 7.0 to use the Visual Micro extension so that I can adopt the environment from the Arduino project.

Is there a way to use the Atmel simulator in Visual Studio? Or is there a way to load the environment from the Arduino to Atmel Studio?

Thanks. 

I tried opening an object file for debugging but I think it needs to connect to a source file to set breakpoints and examine variables and memory and I/O as I can do with the simulator and a C project.

It should be possible to modify the Arduino include files and libraries to be compatible with standard C syntax. Mostly it might just involve setting up the environment and build paths from the Arduino framework.

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