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Livio Junior Member Offline Posts: 55 Location: Italy Joined: Jan 10^th, 2018	How to alter Visual Studio colors and manage breakpoints? Feb 4^th, 2021 at 4:48pm	Print Post
	And now I want to speak about debugging problems I found. Now go back to the project of previos post. We are arrived at line 55, whe are stop there, at the breakpoint, see screensho5.jpg My opinion? The slight gray highlight is not visible enough, better an Yellow arrow as in Atmel Studio. Now I decide to put one other break point at line 63, I click on the left and a red dot appear. Well, I think. Now I press Continue/Step >>> THE PROGRAM RUN, DON'T STOP !!! As you can see in screenshot6 it's impossible not to pass through line 63. Did I do something wrong? I have done some operations that I considered logical based on my experience, I confess that I have not watched any tutorial on how to debug in Visual Micro.
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: How to alter Visual Studio colors and manage breakpoints? Reply #1 - Feb 4^th, 2021 at 5:03pm	Print Post
	Breakpoint Color The colors are standard Visual Studio, you can configure your own or use the Theme defaults. Stopping at breakpoints There are options to either stop or trace and other options for breakpoints. If you added a message to your breakpoint it will probably have enabled the "Continue Execution". Please submit a build log with reports such as this so that we can see what options you have configured and explain what is happening.


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Livio Junior Member Offline Posts: 55 Location: Italy Joined: Jan 10^th, 2018	Re: How to alter Visual Studio colors and manage breakpoints? Reply #2 - Feb 4^th, 2021 at 5:51pm	Print Post
	Breakpoint Color: Ok I will check other Theme Stopping at breakpoint: Quote: There are options to either stop or trace and other options for breakpoints. If you added a message to your breakpoint it will probably have enabled the "Continue Execution". Please submit a build log with reports such as this so that we can see what options you have configured and explain what is happening. I only click on the left and a red dot appear, I don't set anymore. in any case now the problem is to have Atmel-ICE working, because now is connected but not working, as you suggest i will open other thread about this. Thank you. Livio


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: How to alter Visual Studio colors and manage breakpoints? Reply #3 - Feb 4^th, 2021 at 5:59pm	Print Post
	If you do not have the ICE working then maybe you were using the serial debugger. It is very important that we know what you are doing otherwise we can not help you quickly. The build output requested in yellow above shows us most of what we need to know. The Serial debugger is more limited for exploring code in underlying cores and libraries. Please post the output if you need more assistance here.


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Livio Junior Member Offline Posts: 55 Location: Italy Joined: Jan 10^th, 2018	Re: How to alter Visual Studio colors and manage breakpoints? Reply #4 - Feb 5^th, 2021 at 9:46am	Print Post
	As I say in other post I start again, disinstall all and reinstall all triyng to follow letterally your instructions on web. Now I have a fresh installation of Visual Studio, Arduino IDE and Visual Micro in Windows 10 Pro. I have a board MKRWiFi1010 connected to PC via USB, but only for power, NO data connection, the USB cable has only two wires: GND and +5V and I don't see the COM port in Windows Device Manager. Atmel-ICE connected to USB, I can see it in Windows Device Manager, and connected to the board, from SAM Port, with JTAG cable. VS: I create a new project: VM Blink Led Example. VS: I set Atmel-ICE as programmer. vMicro - Debugger I set Atmel-ICE as Hardware Debugger. vMicro - General - Global Options - "Gdb and Chip Debugging" is set a True by the default installation. See attached screenshot. GO. vMicro - Build & Upload Well. It works! The Led flash ! So Atmel-ICE can upload the board! Now go ahead. I click on the left side to add a breakpoint. A red dot appear. Ok, I think. Build & Upload. The program run without stopping at breakpoint. What is missing or wrong?

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Simon@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 2175 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2019	Re: How to alter Visual Studio colors and manage breakpoints? Reply #5 - Feb 5^th, 2021 at 10:12am	Print Post
	To start the GDB Debugging session you can: 1) Build & Upload As normal, then press Debug > Attach to Process (this will enter debugging wherever the program is at the time) 2) Press Debug > Start Debugging (this will do the Build & Upload, and then begin debugging at the start of the program)


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Livio Junior Member Offline Posts: 55 Location: Italy Joined: Jan 10^th, 2018	Re: How to alter Visual Studio colors and manage breakpoints? Reply #6 - Feb 5^th, 2021 at 11:02am	Print Post
	Ok, with Debug - Start Debugging it works, the program stops, it stop on the first instruction on main(), see attached image. I don't understand what it means, but if I press [> Continue] the program run untill my breakpoint. The program is from VM Led Blink Example. I am a bit confused between the Visual Studio commands and the vMicro submenu commands. Today is a beautiful sunny day here in Rome, after seeing Atmel-ICE stop at my breakpoint I appreciate it a lot more. Thank you Livio
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