Arduino using Visual Studio

Visual Studio is an excelent tool for creating AVR (Arduino and Native) applications for the ATMEGA328 chips etc. and it is free.

Atmel provide a completly free version of it directly from their site and this has been available for free for YEARS. so its not too late and Bad, maybe just not as well known.

ATMEL Studio 6.1, all ready to rock and roll on AVR development

Microsoft is now also on board with thier version of Arduino development but if you want to be coding like you do with the Arduino IDE then the ATMEL Studio is the one you should look at first.

there is nothing wrong with the Arduino IDE, but as soon as you want to get to more complex applications you will want something like ATMEL Studio (Which as I said, is Visual Studio)

Peter

Visual Studio is an excelent tool for creating AVR (Arduino and Native) applications for the ATMEGA328 chips etc. and it is free.

Atmel provide a completly free version of it directly from their site and this has been available for free for YEARS. so its not too late and Bad, maybe just not as well known.

ATMEL Studio 6.1, all ready to rock and roll on AVR development

Microsoft is now also on board with thier version of Arduino development but if you want to be coding like you do with the Arduino IDE then the ATMEL Studio is the one you should look at first.

there is nothing wrong with the Arduino IDE, but as soon as you want to get to more complex applications you will want something like ATMEL Studio (Which as I said, is Visual Studio)

Peter

That is what I started writing in my previous post in this discussion. I am using AVR studio and it is a (free) version os visual studio very well tailored just for the AVR devices, includes support for the standard Arduino libraries, with the only problem that the sketches become unusable by the old ide. The Arduino IDE should be installed but it is just to get some configuration information, nothing more. AVR Studio is not comparable with the Arduino IDE that is a super-filtered mechanism that makes all simple and a lot not feasable at all.

The big advantage of the AVR studio is that includes all the online and off line examples and documentation for the AVR chips, the possibility to program them with USE via bootloader (works with the Arduino boorloader) or direct programming with ICSP and AVR MK III (other may work but I have never saw them working really). There are lot of advantages because it is a full development environment and it can co-exist on the same PC with the standard Visual Studio for other developments (but I discourage to do this).

Enrico

I've read somewhere (but can't recall where) that the new version 7 of the Atmel Studio will also support SAMA5D4.

There is a Beta program running at the moment...

http://atmel-studio.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/

Just started the install:

The install has finished, and I can't find the SAMA5D4 listed. I'll re-search  the information and see if it was maybe announced for 7.1...

Hi,

Now it's released and the beta period is over. With Atmel Studio 7.0, it should be lot easier to import sketches and work with them. You can either use the

1. Bootloader mode with Visual Micro plugin or

2. Debugging mode with the Atmel Studio Sketch Import feature (File -> New -> Create Project from Arduino Sketch) and the Debug Shield.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fjrKEJCE40

Correct.

Excluding the option Windows 10 - that is too young (especially for the Microsoft guys) to be used seriously and proficiently - IMHO needs at least six months before a new version of Windows can be usable - Why make a lot of tricks with Visual Studio while there is the super flexible and efficient AVR Studio 6.5 and now recently release version 7? It's free, without charge and has a lot of specific advantages vs the Atmel MCU.

Obviously by the point of view of the MS Guys their advantage is that - in theory - you should buy Visual Studio while AVR studio (based on Visual Studio and very well tailored) is free.

Enrico

Visual Studio is also free for the community edition and I have been using it for months now creating Raspberry PI apps under widows 10, and running on Windows 10 IoT without any issues

Atmel Studion as you said is also heavily based on Visual Studio... probably a generation behind the current Microsoft Version in order for MS to keep the "Compettitive" Edge

I have not needed to try Atmel Studio 7 yet but I will be soon, I hope they have not released a version that will not work with Windows 10 as this is being very aggressivly pushed by MS and will upset alot of folks if it wont run

Has anyone tried it yet?

Hi,

Atmel Studio is based on the latest version of Visual Studio i.e VS 2015. So it's not far behind and should work well with Windows 10. :-), without issues.

Just finished installing it and yet it is indeed based on the Vidual Studio 2015 framework with all the cool ATMEL add ons

I will be trying it out over the next few days im sure and yes im running on Windows 10 to do all this

Regards

Peter

Thanks for the Visual Micro mention. Just add add that upload via bootloader or hardware programmer is supported along with support for Arduino .ino files and Arduino usb/bluetooth/rf debugging