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Files are not saved before building
Aug 18th, 2023 at 5:41pm
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Visual Micro Version 22 loaded yesterday
Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 (64-bit) - Current
Version 17.7.1.   The only extension I loaded is Arduino IDE.

Everything worked fine until I upgraded Visual Studio from 15.x.x to 17.7.1.   Now when I build the project the modified files are not saved.  So the system loads and compiles source that is on disk ignoring my changes.

This happens with CTRL b, VS Run button and the two entries in the Vmicro menu.    As long as I REMEMBER to save my changes I won't be fooled again.
  
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Reply #1 - Aug 18th, 2023 at 5:55pm
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Another used reported this. Close the solution and delete the .vs folder from below it. Then re-open. Does that resolve?

It's a VS issue.
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Reply #2 - Aug 19th, 2023 at 1:29pm
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Yes that resolved it.  Thanks for the quick response.
  
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Reply #3 - Sep 15th, 2023 at 1:59pm
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I'm new to Visual Micro, and have the same problem.
Unfortunately I do not know what exactly means "close the solution" and where I can find .vs folder.
Can you explain.
Thx in advance
  
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Reply #4 - Sep 15th, 2023 at 2:02pm
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If you right click the very top node in the Solution explorer, you can then "Open in File Explorer".

Then you can close VS, and delete the .vs folder which will be in the folder opened in the above step.
  
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Reply #5 - Sep 15th, 2023 at 4:57pm
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Thank You. I did what you suggested, but didn't solved this problem. I have to save entire project before uploading. Now instead of .vs folder new folder _vs was created.
Any suggestion?
  
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Reply #6 - Sep 15th, 2023 at 7:05pm
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A _vm folder will always exist under each project. A solution (.sln) can contain multiple projects and often sits in its own folder. If you "opened existing arduino code" the .sln might exist alongside the project code simply because the directory structure already existed.

It is a core Visual Studio function to save the code. Please show a screen-shot of your ide with solution and project code visible.

  
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Reply #7 - Sep 16th, 2023 at 1:00pm
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One item to note.  When you delete the .vs file expand reopen the project you need to set the build target to release.  By default it’s debug and you will get debug behaviors you might not want.

What I would do in your situation:

1. Make a copy of the project directory.
2. Delete everything in the directory except for source files you have created.   That includes subdirectories, Project files and solution file.
3.  Bring up Visual Studio as an empty project.
4. The visual micro menu select creat from existing.
5. Select the .ino file.
6.  Maybe select some missing libraries..

This is basically starting from scratch but you loose nothing.
  
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Reply #8 - Sep 16th, 2023 at 4:03pm
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edit: I was wrong. It turns out Visual Micro has always forced save prior to build. The release early next week uses an alternative vs api to perform the save. For the past 10+ years vm has used DTE.Documents.SaveAll but the next release has changed to call the vs macro for File>SaveAll which is DTE.ExecuteCommand("File.SaveAll"). 

That will hopefully be reliable and we will report this to Microsoft.
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Reply #9 - Sep 17th, 2023 at 1:42pm
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Thx for all your input. I will try - and let you know.
Thank you very much
  
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Reply #10 - Sep 20th, 2023 at 11:19am
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The latest release (23.0915.01) which is available from the top of the below board should resolve this issue:
https://www.visualmicro.com/forums/YaBB.pl?board=VS_ARDUINO_EXT_RELEASES
  
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