Hi all and Merry Christmas. 

I'm on holiday vacation which means it's time to work on embedded thingies. Grabbed my laptop that has Visual Micro and before started coding, I updated everything:
- Installed Arduino 2 IDE
- Upgraded Visual Studio 2022
- Upgraded Visual Micro from 2023.1103.00 to the latest version. 

Then started a new project for Arduino Uno and right of the bat, I noticed it could not find any of the user libraries. 

So naturally I swapped between Arduino 1.8 and 2 on the IDE menu, still nothing would work. 

My next step was to uninstall Arduino 2, and then I even uninstalled Arduino 1.8, still had issues. So I uninstalled visual micro and installed again. But problems persist. 

At this point not even creating a new sketch works anymore, it would always throw an error in the output with "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". 

I have another PC, and the same code builds flawlessly in it. At this point I cannot risk updating Visual Micro in there, in case it stops working as well. But that at least proves the code works fine. 

My current state is:
Only Arduino 1.8.19 installed. 
Visual Micro 2024.1211.2204

I followed the yellow box instructions and attached the txt to this post. 

If anyone out there is listening, please make the Christmas miracle happen! 🎅🎄🌠

All the best.