Hi,

The user.h is not include in the project.

1)
I previously explained about the show all files button above the solution explorer and that it shows two different views. 1) the files on disk and 2) a filtered view of the project that shows only the files that have been included.

The word "included" has nothing to do with #include statements in the code. It relates to the standard visual studio features that allows some sources to be "included" in the build and some to be "excluded" from builds.

Right clicking files should show a standard visual micro menu with option to either "Include in project" or "exclude from project"

You didn't comment previously when I mentioned this so can we please be sure you understand what I have said and understand how to Include and Exclude files from a Visual Studio C++ project.

2)
Although it is important for your own piece of mind to clearly understand point 1) there are some safeguards for less experienced VS users that should be helping you. One would automatically include all files in the project folder into a project each time it opens. That obviously isn't working for you so please confirm the following two tools>options>visual micro settings are set to True (the default)

• Compatibility>Compile ALL Project Folder Sources
• Compatibility>Compile Files In Project

Thanks

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It's a good question.

Normally an, such as Eclipse and Visual Studio, ide will compile only what is included in the project.

Normally for .h files this doesn't matter so much because they don't need to be compiled, simply available as #includes.

Normally we can #include headers from anywhere such as "..\..\foo\foo.h"

BUT

For Arduino all the .ino files have to be combined into a .cpp and some extra code added. So for Arduino the build always happens in a temp folder, can't happen where the sources are actually located. This is foreign for most ide's so we are in new territory.

Consider now that if we copy the sources to a temp folder and attempt to find "..\..\foo\foo.h" it becomes a problem.

I think Visual Micro could help by automatically copying all files from the project folder to the temp folder. However things would become less consistent because if users see one file that is not "Included" in the project being found they will wonder why others can't be found.

So currently the rule is, include files in the project and they will be found and copied to the temp build folder. 

I am trying to give options to move away from this constraint. You see in the last release that a project_name.cpp is supported instead of .ino files. In that case Visual Micro will use the local project folder sources in the build and the header would have been found regardless of it's inclusion in the project.

However don't rush to use a .cpp only system without understanding the following rules:-

1) A project_name.ino must still be included in the project but it can be empty and is ignored except to show which headers should be included after clicking "add library"
2) You are responsible for adding #include "arduino.h" to the project_name.cpp 
3) You are responsible for creating function prototypes in the project_name.cpp or a header file.

tip: The build folder will provide a ready-made .cpp with your .ino files, prototypes etc. as an example to get going with.

As you can imagine. By removing ourselves from the .ino files and temp build folder we can start to work like a normal .cpp project however the new facility can not impact support. It is up to users to understand what is happening and to decide this is how they want to work.

Hope that helps.

Finally the error you publish is exactly the same as the error we discussed previously in this thread and the same error you get in the arduino ide. So it is a code problem.