Install

The first install of Visual Micro will install as much of the Microsoft Linux workload as it needs. There are other useful tools such as AI based Intelli-Code, Other tools can also be installed using "Tools>Get Tools" or to complete installation of the linux workload.

To install these .vsix files, download and then right click Open With > Visual Studio Version Selector

Visual Studio, excellent intellisense and debuggers for all platforms.

    Download Visual Micro for Visual Studio 2022

    Download Visual Micro for Visual Studio 2017/2019

    Download Visual Micro for Visual Studio 2022 running on windows ARM64 devices

Microchip Studio, formerly known as Atmel Studio: The only difference between the following two links is simply which microsoft vsixInstaller.exe your pc is configured to use. End result is the same. Try them. They offer the best AVR, SAM and SAMD hardware debuggers but only serial/wifi debug for other types of boards. 

    Download Visual Micro for Microchip Studio (ms V2 installer)

    Download Visual Micro for Microchip Studio (ms V1 installer)

Fixes and additions

• Color coding and intellisense and red squiggles were missing from .ino code in the latest Vs2022 IDE (+ bumped version for vs2022)
• Blank platform explorer. Platform explorer dpi scaling failed for scaling above 100%
• Fix: Use utf8 when reading the arduino 2 cli settings (yaml). Support international chars in paths.
• Utf8 in paths caused the new intellisense format to fail (vs)
• Potential hang in the intellisense engine after creating a new project using the File > New > Project templates.
• Use utf8 when reading the arduino 2 cli settings (.yaml). Support international chars in paths.
• Roll up of all changes since last release for Microchip
• Arduino 2.0 support
• Option to use Visual Micro without any backend IDE such as Arduino 1x or 2x
• Moved the "Always use Atmel Debugging" toggle menu to work inline with the standard Visual Micro "debugger types" menu. Selecting "Hardware Debugger" will use the Microchip Studio hardware debug tools. 
• Prevent Microchip from attempting a build when attempting to attach a hardware debugger. Previously, users has to uncheck "Build>Configurations>Build/Deploy". (The Microchip build will always fail for Arduino projects, Visual Micro has to manage the build)
• Project Names: Creating new projects will show "(Arduino)" after the project name in the solution explorer.
• Release of the 1st version of Visual Micro for ARM64 devices. To create projects in the ARM version use "File>New>Arduino Project" or, to open .ino code for the first time use "File>Open>Arduino Project". This is because the Visual Micro templates in the standard Visual Studio "File>New wizard" can not be used until Microsoft release the Linux Workload for arm devices. In this release for ARM, the Visual Studio Desktop C++ workload is required. Normally Visual Micro only requires the Linux workload that provides better intellisense.
• Potential crash accessing Visual Micro tool bars to automatically control visibility.
• Potential crash when reloading tool chains via the Platform explorer
• Potential crash when not loading Visual Micro on demand. Tool bar access while the Start Page Window is open prevented the ability to confugure the UI.
• Potential crash if Visual Studio is not open and a solution (.sln) shortcut is clicked in windows. The IDE loads and loads the solution before the Visual Studio UI has initialized. Visual Micro will delay the load of its UI customizations until the IDE has sent it's first UI message.

Visual Micro can be uninstalled or reinstalled using "Extensions>Extension Manager". Installing Upgrading Visual Micro not prevent roll back to earlier versions. Hopefully never required. Let us know in this forum!