VS Arduino - Modifying Existing Project on GitHub

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CSC Junior Member Offline Posts: 38 Location: Panama Joined: Apr 17^th, 2020	Modifying Existing Project on GitHub Nov 8^th, 2020 at 2:22am	Print Post
	Ive setup Visual Studio + Visual Micro and have it working fine for new code. I can create new code, use existing libraries stored locally, upload to board, etc... However, I've not yet figured out how to work with existing projects from GitHub. I can clone them and view the source code, but the VS/VM menu items to build etc do not appear. If I modify the toolbar to turn them on they flash briefly and then go away. The "Build" menu item for example is not visible at all. The existing repositories I am using are Arduino IDE sketches, not yet Visual Studio projects. I get to this point by choosing the "no code" link from the start page and the File>Open>Open From Git Hub from the menu bar. Screen shot attached. How do I open a repository on GitHub and be able to build etc?

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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12204 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Modifying Existing Project on GitHub Reply #1 - Nov 8^th, 2020 at 3:16pm	Print Post
	We just use standard Visual Studio C++ projects for Arduino. If you have an .ino file in a directory of the same name, then you need to open a .vcxproj or use "File>Open>Arduino Project" which will create a .vcxproj for you. The "open" option is also on the vMicro menu. After you have a .vcxproj you can use the standard Visual Studio File>Open commands or Recent lists to re-open. Using "File>Open>Arduino Project" can always be used but it is better to use the standard VS commands after the project/solution has been created.
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CSC Junior Member Offline Posts: 38 Location: Panama Joined: Apr 17^th, 2020	Re: Modifying Existing Project on GitHub Reply #2 - Nov 8^th, 2020 at 6:07pm	Print Post
	Thanks. Will give that a try.


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