Ive had Arduino 0016 running on my laptop for a while with no problems. Ive just installed Visual Studio 2008 and now when i go to load up my Arduino GUI, to program etc, it no longer wants to boot up and refers to Visual Studio with this window:
Any help with what i need to do to get it back to using the original Arduino Software would be so much appreiciated.
This is because Visual Studio includes a just-in-time debugger that will catch any crashing application and ask your if your want to debug it. Just say no and it will go away. If your Arduino software worked before installing Visual Studio it should keep working. Maybe it was always doing this error it's just that you couldn't see it without a debugger, I supposed the Arduino Software can recover from that error and keep loading and eventually load successfully.
I'm keen to hear from anyone that would like to beta test an arduino extension for visual studio called Visual Micro. The extension makes it easy to build on new or existing sketches.
Visual Micro maintains sketch compatibility with arduino whilst allowing visual studios C++ intellisense to work with ANY core and ALL libraries.
The product is “boards.txt” and “serial port” aware, retains the board and port per project and allows arduino library folders to be added via a single menu click.
For anyone who doesn't know or can't remember arduino class, struct and method names the intellisense is very useful. You can read more about more Visual Micro features here http://www.visualmicro.com
If you would like to register as a beta tester please send us an mailto://beta@visualmicro.com or use the link on the Visual Micro home page.
I want it to be a free helper for all those people who do not profit from arduino
I am aware that some people are making a profit selling arduino hardware along with supporting open source libs or code. I think the product will be useful (more so over time) for the profit group but it takes time to create/extend the product and feel I should benefit where benefit is due
The "pro" version will include features that make it easy to create and manage new arduino libs and/or cores and to allow the adding of help and examples to related xml files using short cut keys (or menu)
The ability to press a few keys to add a snippet/example for the current line/method/var/struct/class etc (code context) might also be useful for others. I always forget how my functions work when I have been away from my arduino projects for a while. Leaving reminders for myself that are not a mass of code comments would be great!
I am hoping to find an xml file structure that would be acceptible to other product IDE's not just Visual Studio. Suggestions welcome!