This download is the latest Arduino plugin for Visual Studio 2008-2013 and Atmel Studio 6.1/6.2. This release supports all Arduino Ide versions including the latest 1.5.6 and 1.0.5.
Fixes and additions of note are summarized here
Please use the visualmicro.com forum to ask questions or report problems
If need be, Visual Micro can be uninstalled via windows "control panel > add or remove programs > visual micro" and then replaced with the recommended current release.
NOTE: The Apple Bonjour for Windows Service is optional, but required to allow network discovery of the Arduino Yun
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Fixes and additions of note are summarized here
Please use the visualmicro.com forum to ask questions or report problems
If need be, Visual Micro can be uninstalled via windows "control panel > add or remove programs > visual micro" and then replaced with the recommended current release.
NOTE: The Apple Bonjour for Windows Service is optional, but required to allow network discovery of the Arduino Yun
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1404.01
- Many fixes and improvements
- Updated support for all micro-controller versions
- More intelligent diagnostics with auto-fallback
- Fix - Port discovery error stuck in loop (if a Yun was connected and zero ide application paths where configured)
- Support for lm4f and msp40 in Energia Ide released Mar 2014
- Application locations - Warning if invalid location is specified (forum)
- Application locations - Ensure valid folder provided by user, ignore .exe file name in paths (forum)
- Extended verbose messages during upload
- fix - #includes in comments are ignored
- 'Help>Visual Micro Documentation' menu item with alpha of new help system
- Menu Icons use less memory
- Improved upload error reporting
- Debugger breakpoint/trace throttle delay is now factored by PC Cpu speed
- Bitmap for Atmel new project templates
- Installer configured color syntax for Vs versions in line with Atmel Studio
- Installer prompts for .net 3.5
- Compiler errors in .ino sources displayed incorrect line numbers (drill down into source code was correct)
- Windows wmi database errors are silently ignored until the database is repaired. then it will be used again
- Improved status messages
- Verbose compile reports #included paths
- On-screen warning and additional diagnostics if the Ide application list can not be loaded from the installed Visual Micro files. Usually a virus checker preventing install or access to "micro platforms/applications.txt"
- Users with a corrupted wmi database were unable to load Visual Micro. The windows wmi database should be fixed using advice from Microsoft however we only read from it and we can work without it!
- Arduino versions up to 1.5.6 and 1.0.6
- Atmel Studio 6.1/6.2 and Visual Studio Pro 2008>2013
- Support for #import <LibDir/Header.h>
- Include paths contains root libraries folder
- More intelligent library compiler cache
- Faster compiler
- Faster debugger
- More trace diagnostics reports such as Port and Library discovery
- New icons
- Atmel New project templates (same for vs coming soon)
- Better intellisense and support for custom hardware (1.0.x and 1.5.x)
- Galileo high speed compiler
- More robust syntax color code
- Fix, existing users had to uninstall the previous release and then install 1403.03 before Atmel Studio 6.2 was configured correctly.
- Support for custom boards with bootloader.hex files stored in bootloaders root (sparkfun MegaPro).
- Installer refresh which failed to register Visual Micro for Atmel Studio 6.2
- Support for Atmel Studio 6.2
- Atmel Studio new project templates
- Arduino 1.5.6-2 + all lib formats
- Debugger hit count bug fixes
- TI LaunchPad Stellaris compiler bug fix
- Many other fixes will be posted in the new releases section of the forum
- Atmel Studio options to use Jungo Usb drivers with programmers (JTAG ICE3, AVRISP MkII)
- Large improvements for MpIde, Pic32 and ChipKIT. Intellisense and compiler fixes/additions. Much of the Pic32 lower level sources are now available to intellisense.
- Mpide Arduino and Pic32 will include -l the SketchFolder for both intellisense and compilations. This allows #include <foo.h> from the current sketch folder as an option instead of #include "foo.h" . Mpide supports this but the Arduino Ide does not. So Visual Micro does either depending on the selected Ide.
- More of the MpIde configuration system is used to determine the build properties. Previously some Max32 properties were used to compile other Pic32 boards. The Uno32 being the biggest winner.
- NB: By default. Visual Micro expects the Mpide sketch book folder to be "mydocuments\mpide". The default can be changed by altering the "sketchbook folder" in the application location configuration dialog (or by following the setup guide).
- Better display of pic32 compiler errors which in some cases have a slightly different format to Arduino. Double click drill down from Pic32 errors into the sketch or the Pic32 sources. (F8 quick jump to the next error)
- Pic32 almost out of beta :)
- Upload verbose output/trace was missing
- Upload now has a timeout of 95 seconds. 5 seconds longer than avrdude. The property can be overridden in applications, boards or platform.txt. upload.timout=millis.
- The optional display of compiler warnings failed for Arduino 1.5.x projects which do not normally support altering the compiler warnings setting. Enable in Visual Micro using "Tools>Options>Visual Micro>Compiler>Show Warnings=True"
