Hi,

If you create a project manually make sure the .vcxproj, the folder and a .ino file all have the same name. Otherwise Visual Micro will not mane the project.

Notice the solution explorer also shows a project name, this should also be the same.

\folder_project_name
   project_name.vcxproj
   project_name.ino

Foes this help?

The vsarduino.h can be excluded from git. In fact the vcxproj and .vsarduino.h are automatically maintained based on what can be deduced from the  physical code. Therefore it's only the real code that needs to be tracked with git but it's up to you how you work.

If you are expecting library sources to be stored in git you have a few options but might confuse this discussion so ask if need be.

For git, the project must exist in or below where the solution is located.

Maybe you just need to save the solution to a different location.

Probably I have to move the solution to the same level as project folders:
c:\Arduino_IFC\my_code\

How to do that without braking compilation and without creating a new solution?

Changed solution file, moved to c:\Arduino_IFC\my_code\  where project subdirectories are and that was still not enough... finally to get it working also had to remove previously created Git repositories from the \.git folder and in windows Registry following this advice: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32304977/remove-git-mapping-in-visual-studio-...;
Then created new repos in TeamExplorer. 
Now I got both Git working and projects compile fine !
Thank you Tim
Vlad

Hi,

Visual Micro uses standard Visual Studio C++ projects so whatever C++ projects support will work.

Visual Micro doesn't override or change any of these options so it's really a discussion for Microsoft or the author of the Git extension.

Thanks

Hi,

The git tools work outside of visual micro with visual studio projects and solution.

I guess you can either:-

  Create (or let visual micro create) shared library projects (see the checkbox on the "Add Library" menu for an example). Then right click "References" for your your Arduino project and and add the libraries as "Shared Projects". Using this system the libraries can be in any location. There is also a "File>New>C++>Arduino Library" which shows more clearly how a library can become a "shared library project".

or 

  You can copy libraries to "project_folder\_micro-api\libraries" and then include them in the project using right click in the solution explorer. You will need to click the little "show all files" icon above the solution explorer to see the libraries you copied using windows explorer. Visual Micro will use the local libraries sources during builds but will treat them as libraries and not local project code. However, they will also be a part of the project as far as any GIT tools are concerned