
Arduino boardsĮach project is setup with a unique board. Repeat this action for more Serial Monitor windows. Now place the Monitor window where you want. Simply select the port from the toolbar drop down menu, click on the Serial Monitor icon next to the toolbar. More that one Serial Monitor can be view at one time. Multiple Arduino projects in one solutionĬlick Ok and a new project/sketch is added We are investigating alternative places to add library and boards lists which will also enable arduino examples to be included.
The apparent slowness of adding user interface items is due to the way Visual Studio works. This process is a background process, which means that you do not have to wait for the process to complete before you start programming an Arduino project in Visual Studio. When Visual Studio starts the plugin loads a list of boards and libraries which are then displayed on the various menus. During the load, the addin displays the names of these arduino items in the Visual Studio status bar.
Some more information Visual Studio Start Up - Tip The current start up project will be shown in bold in the Visual Studio solution explorer. This governs which project is uploaded when clicking F5 or any of the standard "Start" commands in Visual Studio.
If you have multiple arduino projects in a single solution you can right mouse menu on a project name to "Set As Startup Project". To recap, all of the Visual Studio "build/debug" tool bar buttons, "build" menu items, "debug" menu items, right click context project menu and keyboard shortcuts provide compile and upload for Arduino. On the tools menu you can also override the serial upload and use a programmer instead. "Start with or without" debugging will upload for the selected port and board. The standard Visual Studio "Debug" options will upload (but not debug). The standard Visual Studio "Build" options will build/compile for Arduino for either a single Arduino project or all Arduino projects in the current current solution. Press the Green tool bar arrow or F5 to compile, upload and debug. Press the Blue tool bar arrow or SHIFT+F5 for compile and upload (Debug>Start without debugging). Select a programmer from vMicro->Uploader->Hardware Programmer. Once the project has loaded and opened, select a board from the Boards toolbar. Select an existing sketch in the Arduino project directory. Step 2: Open an existing Arduino sketch as follows: Configure visual studio arduino source color coding (not required in Atmel Studio versions).
Read the basic setup guide - especially first time users. Download Visual Micro or install from the Atmel Gallery.