Hi, I've loaded an existing *.ino file into Amel Studio with vMicro and successfully created a working project. It's a simple LED Blink program that works fine in Arduino IDE, however I cannot get it uploaded to the Xplained Mini board with vMicro (to use vMicro debugger). 

I read some previous posts about selecting the programmer as "Atmel mEDBG" and checking "Always use programmer for upload" and I have done that, yet the upload fails. Here's the output from vMicro Build:

Compiling 'Blink' for 'Atmel atmega328p Xplained mini'
Program size: 934 bytes (used 3% of a 32,256 byte maximum) (0.70 secs)
Minimum Memory Usage: 9 bytes (0% of a 2048 byte maximum)
 
Uploading 'Blink' to 'Atmel atmega328p Xplained mini' using 'Atmel mEDBG'
The uploader returned an error

It fails the same way whether the debugger selection "Atmel Studio Debugger" is checked or not.

The only way I can get any success is to select "Atmel Studio Debugger" from the vMicro>Debugger Menu AND edit the project properties under "Tool" for the Selected debugger/programmer and select "mEDBG" and "debugWire" interface.

However, now clicking the build/upload icon, when compile finishes, it pops up the Atmel Studio Device Programming window where you have to select tool, device, and interface to proceed. This is a lot of clicking around to get the device uploaded. And this doesn't allow using the vMicro debugger!

There has to be a way to get vMicro to upload to the Xplained Mini board (without selecting Atmel Studio debugger and uploader) and be able to use the vMicro debugger, right?

What is the way to go about it?
Any help is appreciated.