Hello.  I went ahead and purchased the Visual Micro add-in  to help support this great tool for Visual Studio, even though I was unable to beta test much as a beta tester. I just installed the Visual Micro add-in tonight along with Arduino v1.0.5, but am having some issues.

1). In VS 2010, I click on File->New->Arduino Project and type a name.  I get the solution to open (in the solution explorer), but nothing else.  No window to see/type my code showing the void-loop.  I would expect a blank window (tab) where I can type code with the void loop function.  Do I need to have VC++ installed as part of Visual Studio?

2). If I open an existing example in the Arduino folder, I select the INO file and it opens the solution in VS 2010, but again no source code - nothing shows up!  Just the solution name in the solution explorer.

Do I need Atmel Studio 6.1 installed?

I have other add-ins installed and am wondering if perhaps one is conflicting with this or if I'm missing something else.  For example does anyone have CS-Script, JetBrain's Re-Sharper, and Xamrain Mono for Android installed with this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!  Thank you very much for your time.

Nelson

Thank you Nelson for raising this issue, I have spent a long time trying to get the Visual Micro add-in to work with similar results, although I also had Visual Studio crashing, making me think it was a problem with Visual Studio. 

Please will the makers of Visual Micro do 2 things to make life easier for folk like us:

1) Make it very clear in the pre-requisites that the C++ language module of Visual Studio must be installed first. I use C# and therefore have had no need for the C++ module, until now.

2a) Update the installer to check for this pre-requisite during installation, or

2b) When starting an Arduino project, make the add-in check for C++ instead of just giving a blank panel with no indication that anything is wrong.

Chris.