Hello,

Yesterday I upgraded the plugin to the latest version and now I cannot upload sketches to the board. The sketch compiles and uploading process starts. The led on pin 13 blinks a couple of times, but then it seems like the old sketch starts running and Visual Studio hangs. RX led on the board keeps blinking once every couple of seconds, but TX led stays off. After a while I get a bunch of messages like the following:
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x80
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x80
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x80

The symptoms I'm getting are the same as in this topic. Indeed, removing and reinstalling the serial port driver solves the issue, but as soon as I try to upload something from VS it breaks again. Uploading from Arduino IDE works fine.

I'm guessing maybe board type setting is somehow incorrect. I'm using an Arduino Uno board and it seems it's being detected correctly. I tried selecting it manually, but to no avail...

Here you go:


Compiling 'Sketch1' for 'Arduino Uno'
Build folder: file:///C:/Users/***/AppData/Local/V.Micro/Arduino/Builds/Sketch1/uno
Summary: Header=1 Prototypes=7 Imports=0
Additional Defines: 
Architecture Tools: C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/
Sketchbook: file:\\\C:\Users\***\Documents\Arduino
Core Include Paths
Include Path 'C:\Users\***\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\Sketch1\Sketch1'
Include Path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino'
Include Path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\variants\standard'
Build Core Paths: C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avr-g++" -c -g -Os -w -fno-exceptions -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-threadsafe-statics -MMD -mmcu=atmega328p -DF_CPU=16000000L -DARDUINO=10604 -DARDUINO_AVR_UNO -DARDUINO_ARCH_AVR -I"C:\Users\***\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\Sketch1\Sketch1" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\variants\standard" "C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\Sketch1\uno\Sketch1.cpp" -o "C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\Sketch1\uno\Sketch1.cpp.o"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avr-gcc" -w -Os -Wl,--gc-sections -mmcu=atmega328p -o "C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\Sketch1\uno/Sketch1.elf" "C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\Sketch1\uno\Sketch1.cpp.o" "C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\Sketch1\uno/core.a" "-LC:\Users\***\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\Sketch1\uno" -lm
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avr-objcopy" -O ihex -j .eeprom --set-section-flags=.eeprom=alloc,load --no-change-warnings --change-section-lma .eeprom=0 "C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\Sketch1\uno/Sketch1.elf" "C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\Sketch1\uno/Sketch1.eep"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avr-objcopy" -O ihex -R .eeprom "C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\Sketch1\uno/Sketch1.elf" "C:\Users\***\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\Sketch1\uno/Sketch1.hex"
Binary sketch size: 1,984 bytes (used 6% of a 32,256 byte maximum) (0.92 secs)
Minimum Memory Usage: 219 bytes (11% of a 2048 byte maximum)
 
Uploading to I/O board using 'COM4'
Uploader started for board Arduino Uno
Upload method will be: bootloader
Uploading via Bootloader 
C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avrdude "-CC:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf" -v -patmega328p -carduino -PCOM4 -b115200 -D .hex:i"
avrdude: Version 6.0.1, compiled on Apr 15 2015 at 19:59:58
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
         Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch
         System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf"
         Using Port                    : COM4
         Using Programmer              : arduino
         Overriding Baud Rate          : 115200
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 6 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 7 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 8 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 9 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude done.  Thank you.
Upload failed

1)
Sorry, I thought I had asked if you also upgraded the arduino ide when you updated Visual Micro?

2)
By the way it's not visual micro that does the upload but the tool chain below the arduino ide. You can see the command in the output you posted.

You could put it in a .bat file and try it yourself. Also it would be useful to see the same output from the arduino ide after enabling "file>preferences>verbose upload"

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avrdude" "-CC:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf" -v -patmega328p -carduino -PCOM4 -b115200 -D  

ps: I have added quotes to the avrdude command which are not shown in the verbose output

If the .bat works but Visual Micro fails then I can look at the port reset just prior to upload.

3)
You can also switch on file>preferences>external in the arduino ide to upload in the short term. It allows the same sketch to be open in both vm and arduino but arduino in read-only auto detect changes mode.

It's possible the pc usb port had become confused. 

Happens rarley but usually solved by reconnecting the usb, using a different usb port or rebooting. It's also possible that using one of the programmer options without a programmer left the port in a bad state.

Anyway thanks for the update great to hear its working.