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Serial Monitor and Library Manager won't open
Oct 6th, 2017 at 5:32pm
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Hi there,
i am pretty new to Visual Studio and I don't know what to do.

I installed Visual Studio Community 2017 and added the Arduino IDE by Visual Micro. When I did so, everything went fine. After messing up an installation I had Visual Studio repaired. Since then the Serial Monitor and the Library Manager (Download and install Arduino Library) within vMicro won't open anymore, nothing happens.
I reinstalled vMicro, reinstalled Visual Studio, used an VS Uninstaller for leftovers etc. But nothing changes, everything works except for the Serial Monitor and the Library Manager.

Since I don't know what to do now, can you maybe help me and give some advice? This is really frustrating for me, because I do not have the time for such problems right now.

Thanks in advance.
  
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Re: Serial Monitor and Library Manager won't open
Reply #1 - Oct 7th, 2017 at 12:10pm
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when vs is open what path is in "tools>options>visual micro>version>assembly"
  
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Reply #2 - Oct 7th, 2017 at 12:47pm
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It is becoming really awkward now. Yesterday in the late evening everything worked normallly, I didn't change a thing. Today, didn't change a thing again, it isn't working anymore...

Assembly path now is:
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual udio.Arduino.15.dll
  
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Reply #3 - Oct 7th, 2017 at 1:35pm
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Hi,

Sorry to hear of the problem. I have been producing and supporting visual micro for 8 years and have never encountered a report of this type of issue.

I have some questions.

Does build work?

Can you open the micro explorer?

Do you see a list of boards?

Test: Do you see a menu item call vMicro>try, buy, activate? If so click it. Does a window open?
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Reply #4 - Oct 7th, 2017 at 1:46pm
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Thinking about your report and the fact you are new to visual studio.

If the project builds okay then I think visual micro is OK

It is possible you have docked and minimized the tool windows (serial and micro explorer)

Please show a full screen shot of you Ide

Thanks
  
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Reply #5 - Oct 8th, 2017 at 9:39am
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Hi again, thanks for your effort.
I think I found the 'problems'. Problem 1 is sitting right in front of the computer. Problem 2 is window's awful window management. I have TV connected as a second monitor via a HDMI switch and windows and even when Visual Studio opens on the primary monitor, those popup windows like the Serial Monitor sometimes open on the TV even when it is turned off... I did not think of this at the beginning because VS opened correctly.

Thanks again for your time and support.
  
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Reply #6 - Oct 8th, 2017 at 11:24am
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great, thanks for the update
  
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