Quote:You originally reported this problem as avrdude attempting upload to the wrong COM port (com16). Only after some invested time by myself did we establish that you have two projects in your solution and one is supposed to upload to COM16.
This is correct. At the time there was no reason to suspect that it had anything to do with the use of two comm ports. When the fault showed itself I was only targeting one device and the other device was disconnected. I could not get the upload to go to the correct port. That was the problem, and still is.
Quote:I then asked if you were using the normal F5/start and you told me you were using "Project>upload last sketch build". You then gave me a whole bunch of reasons why upload last was the same as F5 all of which were irrelevant words.
The "whole bunch of reasons" was, to be accurate, just one - it had a single green arrow. So I was wrong - big deal.
Quote:In your case you are just rude
Frustrated at having worked all day only to find that a development system that ought to be transparent to the development process in fact is stopping further progress. Just human like most people.
Quote:and furthermore seem incapable of answering simple questions.
35 years of teaching and tutoring engineers and mentoring in the corporate environment gives me a legion of people who will strongly refute this claim...
Quote:You have a working development system. If you are not prepared to be polite and to clearly answer simple questions then why not open two copies of Atmel Studio with one project per instance.
Using two copies is a kludge. There is no reason to expect software not to function as designed.
You think I am not polite but you don't know me, or anything about me. I asked reasonable questions about the operation of VM and some unusual behaviour that indicated a fault in the software. It's behaviour certainly was not consistent with the user interface that was provided in that certain setting were being completely ignored. In response I got questions that indicated that you thought that I, the user, was at fault for not using the software properly. There was no indication that you were considering the software to be at fault, which left me wondering whether it would be fixed at all (and whether my investment in your debugger was a mistake).
Understand this. If you wrote the software then you know intimately it's detailed inner workings. I do not, and cannot, so there is only a very limited amount of information I can give you that may be relevant. You, on the other hand know exactly what questions to ask to probe the problem with precision, so I can do no more than await those questions. All of the questions you have so far asked, I have answered.
Quote:You still have not confirmed you know how to change the "Start-up project"
Yes I do. I have done it now several times as part of probing this fault. It does not solve the problem, but it does influence which target/comm port the system gets "stuck on". It's always the start-up project. I did state this on an earlier post.
How about we just focus on the problem from now on.
I am sending the archive immediately to the email you quoted.
Thanks, JohnF