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Nov 21st, 2018 at 12:07pm
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hi  i have VS2013 installed and Arduino 1.8 , and Visual micro latest version installed , everything is working . and code is compiling and everything . 

There is however one thing that is bothering me , the arduino builtin functions ( serial.print .. digitalwrite .... etc ) are not colored , i want to know why is VS not recognizing them and treating them like normal functions .
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Re: arduino builtin functions are not colored
Reply #1 - Nov 21st, 2018 at 1:01pm
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We use the standard visual studio system for this. If you look at tools>options you can alter your own theme in very granular detail OR just switch between Dark and Light.

There is normally a Visual Micro Arduino theme that can be selected that has more "arduino like" functions/method colors however I can't see the theme in my test install so will investigate.

In the meantime take a look at "tools>options>environment>fonts & colors"

  
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thank you for the fast reply .

1- yes that is correct the arduino theme is missing .

2-I tried that in fonts and colors , i found in the display items : " C++ functions " , i changed color to yellow , now all functions ( my functions and arduino functions) are all in yellow , so no luck here either , should have i changed the color of something else ??

I have VS2017 on another machine it suffers same issue 

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Sorry for the confusion. The arduino functions and your functions are just c++ functions. We do not distinguish between them.

Actually the list of arduino functions that might be used for this is only a partial list, giving the most common arduino functions in a different color. That can be confusing and because VS does things "properly" you won't see the color functionality that you are expecting in VS.
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Reply #4 - Nov 21st, 2018 at 2:26pm
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After reading this, I checked with myself. And indeed, in *.ino coloring does not work, in *.cpp it works.
In Tools-> Options-> TextEditor-> File Extension *.ino and * .pde is set to Visual C++.
But that worked sometime, as far as I remember ...
  
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Reply #5 - Nov 21st, 2018 at 2:34pm
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Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Nov 21st, 2018 at 2:04pm:
Sorry for the confusion. The arduino functions and your functions are just c++ functions. We do not distinguish between them.

Actually the list of arduino functions that might be used for this is only a partial list, giving the most common arduino functions in a different color. That can be confusing and because VS does things "properly" you won't see the color functionality that you are expecting in VS.


ok thanks , so my expectation was wrong ... my only concern with that was not making a mistake by defining variable or keyword that is used in arduino 
  
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Visual Studio and the C++ compiler should warn of that and yes you do need better than a few keywords being color. 

You can also click "vMicro>Toggle Hidden Files" which includes the underlying core in the project as shortcuts to assist intellisense but without affecting compilation.
  
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