Hi everyone!
I started to program in the Visual Studio, and I think it's much better than the Arduino IDE, so I installed the VisualMicro.

But I can't Open Arduino Project and my Board and Programmer List are blank.

If I try to Open I get this message:

[code]Error during processing of the command. Please review or post the stack trace in the www.visualmicro.com forumThe path is not of a legal form. (Visual.Micro.Visual.Studio.Arduino.Helper.SolutionOpenArduinoSketch)
System.ArgumentException: The path is not of a legal form.
   at System.IO.Path.NormalizePath(String path, Boolean fullCheck, Int32 maxPathLength, Boolean expandShortPaths)
   at System.IO.Path.GetFullPathInternal(String path)
   at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.Init(String path, Boolean checkHost)
   at System.IO.DirectoryInfo..ctor(String path)
   at processing.app.MCUApplication.getSketchbookFolder()
   at processing.app.SketchUtils.OpenSketchFilePicker(MCUApplication mcuApp)
   at Visual.Micro.Visual.Studio.Arduino.AddInApp.ExecCmd(String commandName)
[/code]

Arduino IDE version 1.6.5
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 version 12.0.3

My IDE path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino

I'm using Windows 10 x64.

What can I do to solve this?
Thanks,
User.

Hi,

Please open the ide locations config window and confirm which Ide name you have selected and the location. Also confirm what you entered for the sketchbook location (if anything at all)?

Thanks

I've attached a PNG image of the Configuration Window.

My paths in Arduino IDE are all default.

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Thanks, I have windows 10 testing on my list for this week. It's been a busy time with arduino 1.6.2+ and Vs2015 and Atmel 7.0 major releases.

I think this must be an issue discovering the Arduino preferences.txt which stores the sketch book path or a problem finding the current users mydocuments folder.

The default for the sketchbook path is "myDocuments\Arduino". Whatever that location is on your pc please enter it into the sketchbook location which is currently (correctly) empty in your image.

Thanks

I changed the Optional Skectbook to C:\Users\Giovanni\Documents\Arduino and now it Works very well.
Thanks!

Thanks. I will be sorting win10 out shortly!

Appreciate the report

My Board and Programmer List are still blank.
And the libraries are missing. (I have then installed but the compiler says they doesn't exist)

Maybe I will wait Windows 10 tests so I can use it properly.

Yes I would only expect the boards to be blank if the wrong ide name is selected or the wrong location has been entered.

I expect this is a windows 10 path issue and the following does not apply but please be sure that in program files(x86)\arduino you have an Arduino 1.6.5 Ide? The version.txt in arduinoide/libs/ folder contains the ide version but it is also shown on the title bar when running the arduino ide.

Oh I might know the problem. For arduino 1.6.5 we also read board and other info from C:\Users\[your name]\AppData\Roaming\Arduino15

That is where Arduino stored the Board Manager stuff.

You can set the path manually for Visual Micro as follows:-

  Tools>options>visual micro>applications & locations>contributions folder

I also suggest setting the temp build folder to some temp area

  Tools>options>visual micro>compiler>temporary build folder

Then re-start the ide or click "Rescan" in the Micro Explorer

Thanks

Thanks for your reply!

-My paths:
Contributions Folder = C:\Users\Giovanni\AppData\Roaming\Arduino15
Temporary Build Folder = C:\Users\Giovanni\AppData\Local

-Configurations:
Optional Sketchbook location = C:\Users\Giovanni\Documents\Arduino

I've attached (print1) the message box I get when I click in the yellow '?' (Open the Visual Micro Explorer).

The other attached image (print2) is what happens when I click on 'Rescan'.

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Hi,

It's wrong to set the Temporary Build Folder to an important existing location on your computer because it will add folder among other existing folder.

Please create a temp folder such as "[MyDocuments]\Build\Temp" then point to that.

Whilst it is important to change the config while you remember it will not solve the problem.

Two last requests,

1)
please switch on "tools>options>visual micro>user interface>trace" then restart the ide and post what appears in the Trace output window to info [at] visualmicro.com

2)
Open the arduino ide in C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino and confirm what version number appears in the ide window title

Thanks

Thanks for your reply!

I changed the Temporary Build Folder =
C:\Users\Giovanni\Documents\Build\Temp

My Arduino IDE version =
1.6.5 Hourly Build 2015/06/09 06:42

I've put the Trace on and checked the following in Tools > Visual Micro = Debug Trace Only.

Here is the Output:


Code (]Application      Begin
Status      Application - Extenders Created
Status      Application - VS Config Helpers Complete
Status      AddinKickOff - Setup temp commands required
Status      AddinKickOff - Command event obtained
Status      Launched - Mcu Init
Info      MyVisualMicro location C:\Users\Giovanni\Documents\Visual Micro
Status      Unable to select the current application
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at processing.app.MCUApplication.get_runtimeBoardsList()
   at processing.app.SketchBase.setCurrentMcuApp(String sAppName)
Status      Available application configuations =  10
Status      Launched. Application configurations loaded = 10
Create UI command items      Begin
CreateCommandBarItems      Begin AddinVer=1.1507.05
Adding      Debug status button to toolbar: Ports
Get Bar      Help
Get Bar      Tools
Create Bar      Tools>Arduino
Adding      Tools>Ports
Adding      Tools>Other Ports
Get      CustomToolBarObjects
Adding      UI Menu-Board-Items
Adding      Seral port menu items
Adding      Creating project menu libraries for platform
Adding      Tools-and-libraries-menu-begin
Adding      Libraries-menu-cleared
Adding      ToolBar-Tools-Menu-Caption-Error
Adding      Lib-user-begin
Adding      Lib-user-cleared
Create UI command items      End
Launch      Complete
Status      Usb or network device connect/disconnect detected
[/code):

Just a note: In the line [code]Info      MyVisualMicro location C:\Users\Giovanni\Documents\Visual Micro

I checked the path and there is nothing there.

The Visual Micro is installed in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Micro\Visual Micro for Arduino

Hi,

Don't use the hourly build use the release. We don't support hourly because it often has bugs and often has an invalid version number

Thanks

Thanks for your reply!

I downloaded it again, and now this is the name o Arduino IDE:
[code]Arduino 1.6.5[/code]

But, I'm still receiving the same Output and the same Warning Window in Visual Micro Explorer.

Ok thanks for all the testing. I am sure during the next week we will find out why you had this problem.

Thanks for your efforts, I will be waiting.

Visual Micro is tested and working with 1.6.6

I replicated the path error in your screen shot by adding an invalid path to the arduino ide.

However 1.6.6 does use a different location for board support files. Both are now supported.

Any problems please create a new thread

Thanks