I was able to get the Visual Micro menu on the Tools menu, and the AVR Dragon appears on the list of programmers, but the programming dialog only shows the simulator in the list of tools:



The Dragon is connected and reads the AtMega328P, so I don't know what the problem might be. I think 6.2 used to work with the Dragon before I got the Visual Micro extension loaded:

The Arduino Sketch folder was "contaminated" with files from my attempts to use Atmel Studio 6.2 and 7.0 and Visual Studio, so I moved them elsewhere and started again clean, using AS6.2. I selected "open Arduino project" and "Simple_Charger.ino". It set up the project OK and I was able to build it with no errors, just some warnings. But the only blue arrow showed "Debug and break". I added a setpoint and tried it, and apparently with the "upload using programmer" checked uses the Dragon. But I get the "pattern" error: 



If I uncheck the "upload using programmer" it tries to use the bootloader on COM9. It doesn't seem to be able to use the software simulator, which I have used for a simple project using the Arduino but set up as a C project without the Arduino libraries and syntax.

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