Hi John,

yes I am happy to focus on the problem, I think this forum is testament to that fact.

For most users the multi project option works well, we will certainly find why it fails for you. However the multi project feature retaining the board setting and com port is a small tiny part of Visual Micro. being able to develop and upload to an Arduino from Atmel or Visual Studio is the product, it is huge and it is free. 

Managing multi-projects in a single solution is just the icing on the cake and I think it is wrong to consider having two copies of the Ide open a fudge. Especially wrong for you to shout about a waste of time when you could have easily opened a 2nd Ide with one project and uploaded without issue.

Show me one other Ide on this planet that does it! In fact show me one other Ide that does half of the Arduino stuff that visual Micro does?

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Well it was attempted by me but not by VM. When I attempted to upload to the remote device it went to the console device instead, on com4, which can actually be a danger to the device.

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Ok, so this is so, then this raises some important questions.

1/ In an Arduino programming environment, what circumstance would lead to two projects that do not get targeted to different devices? This is easy to answer in a more complex traditional programming environment with multiple sources and targets, but the Arduino environment enforces simplicity - even the folder name must match the source filename, and other very restrictive things too. If you are making two projects in Arduino then they are going to two different targets and thats how Arduino enforces it.

2/ Why is there an option to select different upload ports (on the ribbon) for each project? Clearly the setting is saved in the project files because the setting is persistent across ide restarts, however it appears to ignore it when an upload is requested.

3./ Another item arising from an earlier post in this thread, and relevant here. Rarely do I want to compile AND upload. It is common for the code to be in a condition that is hazardous to the target device - eg. ports configured as outputs that are connected to active lines. A regular compile, however is not unusual, just to confirm that the code is syntactically correct, or all includes are there. Nothing is worse than coding all day only to have a thousand errors on the first compile, and at no time during that day was the code in a fit state to upload. That is why I have been using "build" and "upload last build" ( I did do it the way you asked which made no difference to the problem under discussion).   

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That comment makes me feel more confident the issue will be addressed. Thankyou.

cheers, JohnF

Hi Tim,

not on the subject, but I had a look at the manual, triple wow  .

What tool are you using, is it Help & Manual ?

Thanks

Heinz,

I know SnagIt, very good tool. Your topics area clear, and the graphics, which are wonderful help make a picture of the topics. One more reason to be impressed by VisualMicro  .

Heinz- Excellent work on the manual. In the 
"Compiling, uploading and running your sketch"
section, the following link is broken
"switch off the two stage compilation"
i.e it doesn't show up, at least on my IPad