Hi 
I am using VS2012 and Visual Micro 1607.31.0.

When I click "New Arduino Project" or "Open Arduino Project"  nothing happens, the project does not show up in the solution explorer (it shows 0 projects). There are no messages in the output window. 

Interestingly the arduino .ino file and .vcxproj files are created in the correct folder. 

I have been using visual micro successfully and can still work on existing solutions.

Help would be very much appreciated.

Regards

Hi 
Thanks a lot for the fast reply.
I am using Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2012 version 11.0.61219.00 Update 5 with .NET Framework version 4.6.01055.

If I try File>New>Project>Visual C++>Arduino Project I get an error message window:

Unable to read the project file "Test2.vcxproj".
D:\Sour....\ test2.vcxproj(18,3): The imported project "D:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct and that the file exists on the disk.


Not sure what that means.

Regards

Yes, I just managed to create and C++ console application project.

File > New > Project > Win32 Console Application

The project shows up in the solution explorer as expected with header files and etc.

I had a look into the registry and the two entries suggested in the solution on stackoverflow do exist and are correct. 
The next solution suggested to change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\4.0 from 2.0 to 4.0
which I tried too but that seemed to make no difference as well. 

I compared the vcxproj files from a working solution and a newly created one (that would not add to a solution) and found some differences:

<PlatformToolset> was empty so I set it to v110 as in the working one.

<Project DefaultTargets="Build" ToolsVersion="14.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
The 14.0 is a 4.0 in the working one so I changed that one too.

Once I had done those changes the project loaded fine. 

I do not understand how these differences made it into the project file. But it would be good to know how to fix that.

Regards
M

Now I have the problem that the Visual Micro does not show up in the tool bar (as in build and upload etc.). 
I think the project or solution is not recognised as a visual micro one.

The menu "VMICRO" does not offer the build option either.

Any suggestions?

If renaming project files it's possible the cache has remembered the project wasn't arduino. 

Restarting the ide will sort it. 

It is an area that has recently changed due to the new "arduino deep search for includes" which required a higher level of caching because it's a slow thing for intellisense.

If still an issue then zip and email the vcxproj file. email to info[at]visualmicro.com

Great thanks for letting me know.

Thanks a lot for that information. Good to know I can create my own project file if needed.

I have one more question which is a bit off topic. I am trying to run a pre build script (to automatically create a svn version number string define) either from the Pre-build event or custom build step under the projects properties, but that never gets started. Any advice on this?

Regards
M