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Software Releases & Downloads

Release Notes

Drivers & Downloads

Next Release, Alternative Downloads, Previous Releases and E-mail Notifications

Command Line Interface

More Tools: The Power of Visual Studio Extensions

Uninstalling Visual Micro

Introduction

What is Visual Micro?

What Is Arduino?

How the Software Tools Work Together

Visual Studio or Atmel Studio?

Arduino Compatability Overview

Sketch Compatability with the Arduino IDE

First Steps

Installation

eye iconSetup

Your First Project

eye iconCreating a New Project

Opening Arduino Sketches and Projects

Setting up your Board Model and Connection

eye iconUploading, Running, and Rebuilding Your Sketch

The Board Manager

Handling Compiler Errors

Difference between .ino and .cpp code files

Visual Micro Menus, Toolbars and Windows

eye iconToolbars And Menus - Overview

eye iconThe "vMicro" menu

Automatic Toolbars

The Output Window

The Project Properties Window

The Visual Micro Explorer

The IDE Locations Window

The Serial Monitor Window

The Serial Monitor Options Button

Using Multiple Serial Monitors

Tools > Options Settings Reference

Working with Source Files, Projects and Solutions

eye iconAdding and Deleting Source Files

eye iconAdding Libraries to your Sketch

Managing Libraries with Library Manager

Renaming Source Files and Projects

About Projects and Solutions

Intellisense Overview

Project Options Management

The Project Properties Window

Build Configurations

Advanced Project Options

Show / Hide Hidden Files

Supporting Additional Boards by Installing Platforms

Handling Non-US-ASCII characters

The Sketchbook Folder

About .INO and .CPP files

Understanding Project File Structure

Sketch Compatability with the Arduino IDE

Navigating Through Your Code, Exploring Your Code

Special Folders and Portability

How to Encapsulate a Board Package Within a Solution

How to Encapsulate Libraries Within a Solution

Common Platforms & Boards

Performance

Arduino Compatible Board Benchmarks

PJRC

Teensy

Teensy 4x Encryption

Espressif

ESP8266

ESP32 Overview

ESP32 & ESP8266 Sketch Data Upload (SPIFFS and LittleFS FileSystems)

ESP32 & ESP8266 Exception Decoder

ESP8266 - Over The Air (OTA) Uploads

ESP32 - Over The Air (OTA) Uploads

ESP32 - Calculating Custom Partitions

STMicro

STM32 Overview

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) Overview

Serial Debugging

What is Debugging?

eye iconStep-by-Step Debugging Tutorial

eye iconDebugging your Arduino Sketch

How to Stop your Sketch, Recompile, and Run

Working with Breakpoints

Enabling/Disabling, Deleting Breakpoints

Showing Text and Watching Expressions When a Breakpoint is Hit

Custom Debug Output

Analog, Digital, Memory, and Performance Reporting

Conditional Breakpoints

Using Breakpoint Counters

Controlling General Breakpoint Behavior

Keep Track of Your Breakpoints: The Breakpoint Window

Drawing Graphs Using @Plot Windows

Sharing ports between your sketch and the debugger

Debugging with Different Ports, Pins and Speeds

How Tracepoints Influence the Execution Speed of Your Sketch

Hardware Exception Reporting

OTA WiFi Debugging:

OTA WiFi Debugging Supported Boards

Espressif ESP32/8266 Guide

Gdb Debugging

A Brief Introduction to Gdb Debugging

Gdb Debugging Step-by-Step Tutorial

Differences between Visual Micro Debugging, Gdb Debugging and Visual Studio's Debugging of Native Platforms

Debugger Support Listing

Zadig Driver Installation Guide

Espressif Boards:

GDB and ESP32

ESP32-CAM

GDB and ESP32S2 via JTAG

GDB and ESP32S3 via USB

GDB and ESP32S3 via JTAG

GDB and ESP32C3 via USB

GDB and ESP32C3 via JTAG

GDB Stub and ESP8266

Other Boards:

GDB and STM

GDB and SAMD (Nano 33 IoT)

GDB and TI

GDB Stub and AVR

GDB and SAM

GDB and NRF5x (Micro:Bit)

GDB and NRF52 (Nano 33 BLE)

GDB and RP2040 (Raspberry Pi Pico)

GDB and Portenta H7

GDB Stub and Teensy 3.x / 4.x

GDB and Teensy Uno R4 (+Wifi)

Troubleshooting and Advanced Features:

Conditional Code for Hardware Debugging

Troubleshooter for Hardware Debugging

GDB Troubleshooting Error List

Advanced - Custom Debugging Configuration

Advanced - Executing Custom GDB Commands in Visual Micro

GDB and The Peripheral View

Embedded Examples

What To Do After an Arduino Starter Kit

External Interrupts

Timer Interrupts

Marlin 3D Printers and Visual Micro

Auto-Embed Version/Build Information into Firmware

ESP Basic Controller Web Page from SPIFFS

Web Controlled Sprayer

Extending Arduino to the Lab

Introduction Course - Building an IoT Solution

Machine Learning with Arduino and TensorFlow

Easy DIY Bluetooth Speaker Project

Halloween: Make Food Scared with Teensy 4.1

External Hardware Guides

Calibrating Sensors

Powering Your Arduino Projects

Pull Up / Down Resistors Explained

How To Use a Multiplexer IC

How To Use a Line Driver IC

How to Use an Optocoupler or Photo Transistor IC

ESP32-CAM Night Vision Modification

Miscellaneous Topics

Intellisense

Upgraded Intellisense System in Visual Micro

Tuning Intellisense Suggestions / Hints

Extend Intellisense

Advanced Topics

Advanced Configuration

Using Project Properties as#defines inyour code

How to Automatically Pre-Compile Library Archives

Arduino Compiler Dependencies Caching

Arduino Build Hooks

Custom Build Events

Override Build Properties

Auto Increment Version (build events)

Faster Builds

CH340 Driver Fix Installation

Video Guides

About this documentation

This documentation describes the functionality of Visual Micro.
Visual Micro is an extension to Microsoft Visual Studio and Atmel Studio which both are based on the Microsoft Visual Studio technology.

This documentation is focused solely on Visual Micro itself and does not address the basic concepts of Visual Studio/Atmel Studio.

Understanding the basic concepts of Visual Studio and/or Atmel Studio by way of help documentation within each application, will help you get the full benefit of the combination of these programs with Visual Micro.