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birdman Junior Member Offline Posts: 20 Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016	Changing location of Arduino project files in VS Sep 24^th, 2016 at 3:11am	Print Post
	Hello, VS-2015 and Arduino plugin installed and seems working fine. Yet, during installation I did not see anywhere prompting to enter location for the user projects. Currently setup shows C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects as project location but my projects are not saved there. Setup apparently misleading. Instead they are saved in the location of my Arduino libraries which were found by VS during installation probably directory got "known" from Arduino config files. 1st question: how to force VS to save to the location which is shown in VS setup file? and 2nd question: can I also change that setup project location and make it default for all my future projects?


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12187 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Changing location of Arduino project files in VS Reply #1 - Sep 26^th, 2016 at 5:56pm	Print Post
	Hi, Sorry for the delayed response. There are two answers:- 1) In the Arduino world we have a setchbook folder which is normally documents\arduino. This folder is used when you use the Visual Micro Open Arduino project or New Arduino project commands which are menu items outside of the standard Visual Studio File>New>Project or File>Open>Project commands. The sketch book folder can be changed in the Visual Micro Ide Locations dialog or in the Arduino IDE File>Preferences 2) If you use the standard Visual Studio File>New>Project or File>Open>project commands which also open or create Visual Micro projects then you should be looking in Tools>options which is where all standard Visual Studio settings are configured. When using the standard Visual Studio system you can look in the standard Visual Studio Help system or on the internet for guidance. Visual Micro does not affect these commands or how they work. Some versions of Visual Studio remember where you last saved or open and change the default automatically. This is a link to a Microsoft help page that explains how to change the default location https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/34c29fes%28v=vs.100%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPE...


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birdman Junior Member Offline Posts: 20 Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016	Re: Changing location of Arduino project files in VS Reply #2 - Sep 26^th, 2016 at 8:19pm	Print Post
	Thank you very much Tim for a complete answer. I've read that link you provided for VS options and was expecting file to be created in that location although I used visual micro plugin to create Arduino project ... now I know that plugin setup overrides VS option. Thanks again


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12187 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Changing location of Arduino project files in VS Reply #3 - Sep 27^th, 2016 at 12:14pm	Print Post
	Hi, The plugin only overrides the VS setup when using the Vm menu items. File>New>Project and File>Open>Project should not be overridden?


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birdman Junior Member Offline Posts: 20 Joined: Sep 24^th, 2016	Re: Changing location of Arduino project files in VS Reply #4 - Sep 27^th, 2016 at 3:25pm	Print Post
	Yes I understand that, thank you. Stepping aside from the topic - is there way to find the "name" of the property to change font's color in the option menu. I can't see highlighted tag during the search as the highlighted font color blends with background yet whatever I change in the setup is not THAT... May be there is way to find the "name" of the highlighted item as it is called in VS setup ? Can't even guess what category it is - "C++" ? Just "text"? ........ PS... Should I post this as a separate post for other people?


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12187 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Changing location of Arduino project files in VS Reply #5 - Sep 27^th, 2016 at 3:31pm	Print Post
	Hi, Finding VS colors isn't easy. Yes a new thread might be easier then I can look for some pointers for you. Did you also try the arduino c++ theme that Visual Micro installs. Are you using the light or dark VS?


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