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Arduino for Visual Studio and Atmel Studio

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A complete Arduino development system for Visual Studio 2012, 2010 and 2008. Program with intellisense, compile and upload to any arduino microcontroller using Visual Studio. Automatically detects your Arduino version and works with all Arduino versions. Optional USB Debugger

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5/13/2013
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by DennisHill | Fri 10:26 PM

Excellent product and SUPER support! I used it to help develop my last project and it made it too easy (if that is possible). No more Serial.println statements sprinkled around the source trying to debug. Lightning fast re-compiles. This should be included by default in all Atmel Studio downloads!

by Heinz Kessler | September 22 2012

Even though the Arduino itself is a great piece of hardware and software, one of its weak points is the IDE. Every "serious hobbyist" fastly gets to the limits of this very simplistic IDE, which is not much more than a "notepad with a build button".
Arduino for Visual Studio enhances the Arduino experience by offering the whole power of a professional IDE.
The debugging options of the upcoming new version of Arduino for Visual Studio will make troubleshooting a lot easier.
Arduino for Visual Studio is a must for everybody except abolute novices and is highly recommended! 7 of 5 stars!

by Principia | September 21 2012

I've been using the plugin with VS2008 and have now upgraded to VS2012. The plugin is highly recommended - not least beacuse it leverages off all the VS functions like intellisense but also because I can switch between my other projects in c++ and c#. I can re-use code and also make integration across platforms much easier. I'm developing home automation systems using embedded micros networked to desktop machines.

by Nerp | September 21 2012

If you're doing work with Arduino, THIS is the plugin you need - Period. Full Stop.

Coding in the Arduino IDE is like coding on the toilet in a hotel room in a foreign country; by contrast, using this plugin is more like coding from a chaise lounge while sipping a piña colada in your back yard which is just steps from the ocean.

Thank you!

by Margriet Bruggeman | February 21 2012

Im in the process of doing a technical review for a book about Arduino, and this sure makes things easier. I'll recommend it to the authors.

by rei_vilo | January 29 2012

The IDE Arduino deserves

Arduino is a micro-controller with I/Os, serial and I2C buses. Development is done in C++ and heavily relies on libraries.

If the standard IDE provided by Arduino and based on Processing offers out-of-the-box and instant gratification, hides all the complexities behind a neat interface and does "just work", it lacks some nice features any evolved project requires.

Here comes the Arduino 1.0 for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 with all the niceties of the Visual Studio interface. It requires the previous installation of the Arduino IDE to use all the libraries and the AVR tool-chain, so it ensures full compatibility of the code between both IDEs.

The features I use the most are: code sense, parameter tool tips, code snippets, objects browser and refactoring. Once tried, there's no way back to the standard IDE!

A forum is alive and the Visual Micro is responsive.

Highly recommended.

by JohnBlakey | January 27 2012

I've only played with it for about 30 minutes, but I absolutely love the the VS integration with the Arduino framework.