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Aug 29th, 2022 at 1:25pm
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Hi All

I have installed Visual Micro for VS 2022. I have both Arduino IDE 1.8.19  and 2.0.0rc9.2 installed on my windows 11 PC. Most of my projects and therefore boards/libraries are in the older IDE. I set up the IDE location tab in Visual Micro to point to my files and it finds the libraries, but not the boards. My locations are not the default Arduino locations as I have my files on onedrive and I wonder if that is causing an issue. I have included a shot of my IDE setup and also the boards error. 

Any help would be appreciated
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Reply #1 - Aug 29th, 2022 at 1:40pm
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You should remove all of the paths that you have entered.

The Arduino IDE location needs to be the location where the arduino.exe is installed, (not the window shortcut location)

The Setup section of the docs show a bare bones example.

https://www.visualmicro.com/page/User-Guide.aspx?doc=First-steps.html

Dont fill in any other paths. When the IDE path is correct the boards will be available in the platform explorer.

When the boards are showing the libraries will probably also be visible. If not let us know and we will explain one other path that needs to be configured.
  
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Reply #2 - Aug 29th, 2022 at 1:54pm
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Hi Tim

I've removed all other links and the boards are still missing, but since my sketches/libraries are not in the default locations, there are also now missing. My exe is located in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

which was the default installation.

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Reply #3 - Aug 29th, 2022 at 2:01pm
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Ah I see thanks. You can set the sketch book path and downloaded contributions paths because it sounds like you understand how they work.

If the Arduino version you installed is from the windows store then that won't work due to permissions issues. Can you install the normal 1.x ide from this page? Use either the installer or the zip.

https://www.arduino.cc/en/software
  
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Tim

My install was a windows store app but once I read the visual micro docs I uninstalled it and got the stand alone exe from the Arduino site. 

Since my libraries/sketches are not in the default locations, I thought that the new install would not cause an issue. I am thinking that the windows store app uninstall may have left some registry settings or similar that the new install is using. 

It's not the end of the world as the Arduino 2 profile works fine (that was always a download from arduino). The 2 profile is missing some boards/libraries that I need, but I can just reinstall those. I will try and find out what is going on with the 1.8 profile, I'll let you know if I work it out

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Reply #5 - Aug 29th, 2022 at 3:06pm
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Tim , quick question

Do you use preferences.txt to locate files? I have just checked the Arduino15 folder and there is a new folder called .vMicroCache in there with some json files named after my boards, so the visual micro plug in must be accessing that

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We only use the preferences.txt to find the sketch book folder if one has been set in the Arduino IDE but has not been set in Visual Micro.

Have you installed a clean arduino ide using the link I gave previously and set the path in IDE locations? Can you show a new screen shot of IDE locations as it now is?

Any vm files you see on disk can be ignored.
  
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Reply #7 - Aug 29th, 2022 at 4:15pm
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Tim,

yes, my latest 1.8.19 install is from the Arduino site, same as your link.

I have attached 3 screen shots. 
1. Current IDE settings
2. showing all libraries are exposed 
3. showing no boards found and error if click View User Hardware folder (screenshot 3 on separate reply as only 2 images allowed)

I also tried putting the Arduino default location for boards in the folder for downloaded board packages text box and it still does not expose the boards (default =C:\Users\tony_\AppData\Local\Arduino15 and there are board packages in there)

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a bit further. I hovered over the link to the hardware folder and found it was expecting to find a folder named 
C:\Users\tony_\OneDrive\Documents\Arduino\hardware

I created the folder and copied the files/folders from Arduino15 to the new folder. Now I don't get an error when clicking the link, but I don't get any boards either. I do get 2 more links inviting me to install boards/libraries from zip files though.

The screenshot shows what I get now when I click the View User Hardware Folder
  
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Reply #10 - Aug 29th, 2022 at 6:46pm
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That doesn't really help, its a step ahead.

Please clear all paths from IDE locations arduino 1.6/18 except for the IDE location. 

Please show the windows explorer contents of the folder entered into IDE location. We expect to see the arduino.exe.

After that we will restart the IDE just to make things easy. We expect then to see the board in the board list that come with the Arduino IDE, for example Arduino Uno.

nb the sketch book\hardware folder is normally for custom hardware, not downloaded packages but for now we want to ignore the sketch book path entirely and simply configure the IDE,
  
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Reply #11 - Aug 29th, 2022 at 7:06pm
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Ok, thanks. I sorted it. The problem was I didn't look closely enough at the file list in windows. When I wanted to find the folder for the arduino exe, I right clicked the icon from the windows start menu and selected Open File Location. I just assumed that would be the exe. But when I did a screen shot just now to put up here, I noticed the it exposed a shortcut, so I opened file location again and got to the exe. All works fine now. Sorry to waste your time and thanks.

I have been able to compile and upload a sketch and I am impressed by the plug in. I won't be going back to the Arduino IDE

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Brilliant thanks for the update.
  
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