Will AVR Dragon work with this setup or do I have to stay with Atmel Studio 7 for this?  Is there an easy way to get the Example Sketches from Arduino IDE and convert them to use in either Atmel Studio 7 or MS Visual Studio with the Visual Micro Plugin?

With Atmel Studio 7 and the Start a New Project with Arduino IDE plugin does not work well for me because I am using an Atmega1284P and that chip is not supported in Arduino IDE libraries.  I can deal with that later I just want to be able to import and have either Atmel Studio 7 or Visual Studio 7 with Visual Micro plugin convert them to an usable format and then go from there.

You Tube showed a very easy way on an older version of Atmel Studio 6 and Visual Studio plugin that created a menu VAssistX which seamlessly imported all the Arduino IDE examples sketches ready to use.

Thanks

Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Apr 27^th, 2016 at 4:41pm:


Thanks that will help immensely.  For some reason the ForLoopIteration does not seem to work that way.  I  made a post on this already over on another forum regarding the compile errors I see in Atmel Studio 7.  I will add this config file first then try to see if I can upload the ForLoopIteration directly using Dragon AVR.  But I still have to figure out how to get the Atmega1284P libraries into Arduino IDE and Visual Studio with Visual Micro.  Maniacbug released the libraries for the 1284P as the Mighty and Barbuino I think it was called but those libraries are for earlier versions of Arduino IDE.

Where can I find and add the 1284P config/libraries into Arduino IDE and Visual Studio 2105 with Visual Micro.

I am using the Dragon only to upload for now.  Also when I got done installing Visual Studio 2015 community and adding the C++ add-on as well as the Android add-on etc after installation was complete it broke Atmel Studio 7 so all I had to do is repair it.  Both AS and VS work perfectly now.  Well I hope AS has not broken anything in the VS/VM installation.  As far as I could see everything was working.

Do I need to do any more configuring on VS 2015/Visual Micro?   Tip from your documentation below and a thread you linked to which I read through already.  Will this be a concern for basic Arduino Sketch Examples?

Quote:

TIP - New Clang intellisense system will shortly be released as the default project type for Visual Micro. Clang C++ project types (in Visual Studio) are a better fit for Arduino development than the current Microsoft C++ project type that Visual Micro uses. You can try this out for yourself by installing the Android tools for Visual Studio which use a similar system.


Thanks Again!!

Thanks again for all this great information.  Everything is way more fluid with Visual Micro over Atmel Studio and Arduino IDE.  I am almost there with the AVR dragon but unfortunately its using the Jungo Driver so Visual Micro does not see it as a USB device.

Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Apr 28^th, 2016 at 9:20am:



Thanks again.  Will the AVRDragon show up in Device Manager after this procedure?  It did show up when I ran the inf-wizard.exe in the root of the bin but I uninstalled AVRDragon from device manager and went into bin/amd64 and ran the install-filter-win.exe and it was successful but I do not see the AvrDragon in Device manager?  I removed all instances of LibUSB0.dll's from the arduino 1.6.8 folder.  I wonder if I need to actually run the Arduino EXE installer rather than unzipping it to my own directory or does this matter?  I am thinking if Arduino exe is installed then maybe it will look for the LibUSB in C:\windows\system folder?  Anyhow avrude still gives gives me a message unable to find programmer at com5.  I am on windows 10 64 bit.


Edited a few minutes later:

I actually looked for the Wow64 driver both dll and sys in the system folder and copied them into the Arduino folder root and in drivers/amd64 and Visual Micro worked perfectly.  Arduino IDE still complains about not finding the programmer on com5.  I will work on this some more but great progress so far.  I was never able to program my Atmega1284P in atmel studio 7 with the example script ForLoopIteration which I was able to do today so I am very happy about this.   Thanks Again!!

Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Apr 28^th, 2016 at 3:20pm:



I purposely copied them there sorry for not making that clear.  I did that to see if Arduino IDE would see the board if the driver was placed in the Arduino folder.  Remember I don't use Arduino IDE exe installers unless the installer only places a folder in c:\programs but I would think it would also do some registries to windows registry not sure.  Anyhow that is why I placed them in there.

I cannot get Arduino IDE to work but I am trying a few other ways maybe run the Arduino IDE installer rather than just downloading the zip and extracting it anywhere I want it.

It not showing up in device manager does not affect Visual Micro it works perfect and when I run the USBtest from the libusb-win32-bin-1.2.6.0\bin\amd64 it shows the AVRDragon.  

I will continue to work on this but really I don't think I need Arduino IDE anymore when I can do everything in Visual Micro.  For troubleshooting purposes I would like to resolve it but for now everything is solved!!

Thanks Again!

Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Apr 28^th, 2016 at 4:45pm:


I have to thank you again for the wonderful help.

I solved the Arduino IDE issue, as you said in #1, I need to upload to programmer from the Sketch Menu but I still got the error that the programmer could not be found.  After looking over the programmers.txt file I tried a couple things and nothing work until I added this last line about avrdude and not it works 100%.  I had noticed that last line was added to the STK500 and AVRISP MKII so I gave it a try and it worked.  Maybe because AVrDragon is not in device manager it needs that one extra script to work I really don't know?  Can't thank you more than enough for this great help.

I had tried everything in so many combinations to get this ForLoopIteration to work in Ateml Studio 7 but the sketch just would not compile without errors.  If it would have compiled then I would have been able to use Atmel Studio 7 with the Atmega1284Pand get this to upload no problems.  I am actually glad now that I was not able to do this because I never would have found your site and help.  Now I can use all 3 products if I want but Visual Micro is just way beyond MVS and AS in my opinion.

dragon.name=Atmel AVR Dragon in ISP mode
dragon.communication=usb
dragon.protocol=dragon_isp
dragon.program.tool=avrdude