Arduino using Visual Studio

OK, so first downer on this, I will not recognise windows 10 as a valid operating system, its a beta, windows 10 is released in less than a month and it does not support it..... hmmmmm, they need to fix that and quickly

Yes. Rather surprising for an IDE that's based on a Microsoft product, isn't it?

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

Hi,

The Microsoft Arduino tutorial is about the Visual Micro plugin which replicates the Arduino Ide in either the free Visual Studio Community Edition or Atmel Studio.

The plugin if free but has a paid pro version that also allows debugging over serial/wifi./bluetooth and rf

Upload is via bootloader, hardware programmer and wifi which is the same as the Arduino Ide (which also includes Arduino Yun Network/Wifi Uploading along with associated web server files where applicable)

Visual Micro retains full compatibility with the Arduino Ide from a build perspective. This ensures that the core, libraries and sketch are compiled as three separate units in the same way as the Arduino Ide compiles.

Expert users can break Arduino rules if they want to by storing code in sub folders, editing and debugging local libraries, altering compiler defines and switches. There are a lot of features in the plugin many of which are described within the documentation that can be found here

So to be clear. There isn't a "Microsoft Arduino" solution to confuse or change the resulting code of the Arduino, there is simply a plugin that replicates the build process of the Arduino Ide and that uses the same configuration information to manage the build process. This means we can write the same code for different platforms such as avr/sam/intel and use a simple toolbar or menu click to switch platform and upload. Platform independence is one of the fundamental purposes of Arduino so it doesn't make sense to leave it all to Atmel or Microsoft

If you try Visual Micro and have any questions or problems there is a forum waiting to help

Thanks, Tim

www: http://www.visualmicro.com

how to: http://www.visualmicro.com/page/User-Guide.aspx

forum: http://www.visualmicro.com/forums/

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