Please see the 1906.12 release above for the latest changes. There is an important compiler cache fix to resolve slow compile in the previous 1905 gallery version.

coming soon ...

• VS IDE now starts without loading Visual Micro unless bars are displayed that require Visual Micro to load.  This allows C++, VB.NET and C# developers to work with Visual Micro installed but without impacting the IDE until Arduino features are used (such as opening an .ino project)
• Improved toolbar auto visibility when an .ino project is opened. Auto visibility toolbars will hide before the IDE closes so that when the IDE is next used it will start quickly. In previous versions toolbars would be hidden after the IDE is restarted if an Arduino project was not opened.
• Added "Toolbar Auto Visibility" menu to the vMicro menu. All tool bar visibility commands have been moved from the "General" menu to the "vMicro>Toolbar Auto Visibility" menu.
• Add toolbar visibility menu item > "Auto All", which enables auto visibility for all bars. This saves having to click each toolbar to enable auto-visibility for many bars. In VS2019 it is recommended that the vMicro menu toolbar be displayed all of the time. This is because VS2019 does not show extension on the master menu bar at the top of the IDE.
• Minor fixes: Admin users: Auto roll out for large scale deployment. It is now possible to auto-configure all Visual Micro settings when a user first logs onto the IDE and uses Visual Micro.
• All toolbars are now hidden after first install (excl. the vMicro bar). 
• Changed the default auto visibility to 'True' for the Boards, Project and Serial toolbars This allows  new users to find options more easily. The vMicro menu does not default to "auto visibility" because of the note above about the VS2019 menu bar.
• Prevent build hook/event messages from being displayed unless verbose is enabled
• New user first time experience improved. The IDE locations config window is not prompted until a Visual Micro feature is used.
• Fix: New user IDE locations dialog failed to display on first run due to VS2017 InitializeAsync() failing to provide a valid win32WindowHandle.
• Added "Micro Board Options" tool bar
• Automatic hardware debugging configuration, GDB out-of-the-box.
• Extensible GDB configuration
• Fix: Removed Visual Micro settings from the Visual Studio "Help" menu. This was a mistake in recent versions, the same options are on vMicro>General and did not belong on the Help menu.

known issue since End of may 2019 (last month). Folder only mode fails. Note: Folder only mode is experimental and a very simplistic system compared to using normal Arduino/VS projects. It is recommended that the .ino file is opened at least once using File>Open Arduino Project so that a real Visual Studio project is created for you by Visual Micro.