I am developing an Arduino Library and would like to test compatibility with Visual Micro. I can use the Library from Visual Micro if it is already installed via Arduino Sketch, but I wanted to see if I could load it in Visual Micro using the "Install a library from a zip" option.

I did read that the "Install a Library..." option would be part of the upgraded Pro version, but I assume the 30-day trial would still perform this function for now. However, when I choose to install the library from .zip I get the following error messages.

"Extract and detection of a library from this zip failed
Error: Version required to extract this entry not supported (788)" and then some .SharpZipLib messages "

I usually work under Ubuntu, so I regenerated the .zip file under Win7 and still get an error message, but a different message.
"Extract and detection of a library from this zip failed
Zip doesn't contain a library"

Does the "Install a library from zip" function work in the 30-day trial version? Or is everyone just installing libraries from Sketch?

Thanks in advance
DennisH

Thanks for the tip. I didn't keep the whole library in 1 top-level subfolder. I had another look at the Arduino IDE 1.5: Library specification and realize I missed that   Sketch will open the library regardless of the bad folder structure.

For Visual Micro, it works now if I generate the zip from Win7, but I still get the Ziplib errors when the zip is generated from Ubuntu1204. For release versions I'll just make sure I create the zip from Windows.

Just to clarify: Is the "Install library from zip" a Pro version feature only?

Thanks again
DennisH