I want to investigate switching from the Arduino IDE to Atmel Studio 7 (AS7) IDE. I got an Atmel ICE and several Atmega 328P boards to experiment with, and I've installed AS7. For reference, I've used Visual Studio in C, C++ and C# for many years (in another life). So AS7 is doubly appealing to me.
AS7 has a help system that seems highly integrated with the IDE -- Microsoft Help Viewer 2.2. The help viewer has an add/remove content dialog that seems to pull documentation on a wide variety of Atmel products form their web site and integrate it (or install it) into the Microsoft Help Viewer 2.2. One can set the installation source for the dialog to "online" or to "disk". I want to install the documentation for the Atmega 328P, but the preprogrammed Atmel online source does not have information for the 328P -- only for the 328PB (compatible, but more complex). How does one find the help for only the 328P, and which is compatible with the Microsoft Help Viewer 2.2?
I have 328P documentation in PDF, but it doesn't seem possible to install that into the Microsoft Help Viewer 2.2. I'd also like to install things like the PDF diagrams for the pin outs of the Nano boards I bought for experimentation. I wonder if the Microsoft Help Viewer only supports a help document format designed by Microsoft and not the PDF format.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Any help. Also, I do not seem to be able to register for joining Atmel's forum for AS7. It rejects my sign up every time, and tells me to keep trying after an unreasonably long delay--and there is no support contact. I think that forum is called AVR Freaks.
As I watched YouTube videos about the AS7 IDE, I was amazed on how easy it was to skip back and forth between coding and register and bit assignments using AS7, and I want to be there.