[TriEmbed] Visual Micro

[Dwight Morgan]

Thanks Adam! I will proceed on with the installation. I now have the VS Community 2013 thanks to someone on here posting that information a while back. I’ve used VS in the past but it has changed a lot. I’ve got catching up to do. The reason I hesitated was my Norton Security didn’t recognize Visual Micro. Wow! Too many things to play with at once, but AWESOME! Thanks again!

 

Dwight

 

From: adammhaile at gmail.com [mailto:adammhaile at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Adam Haile
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 11:39 PM
To: Dwight Morgan
Cc: Triangle Embedded Computing Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Visual Micro

 

Yes! I love Visual Micro. I admit, I have done Windows development for a long, long time so Visual Studio is second nature to me. And I consider it to be one of, if not the, best IDEs available. (Though Sublime Text is quickly becoming a replacement for many projects).

 

It's really easy to setup... it remembers your board settings on a per project basis, not just the last board you used. You get full code autocomplete and IntelliSense. Basically all the features of Visual Studio. Even the serial monitor is WAY better than the Arduino IDE... you don't have to close and re-open every time you re-upload the sketch.

 

The only trouble I've had with it is that it takes a little manual tweaking to get it to work with the Teensy boards. But nothing too bad.

 

It used to be that I didn't really recommend Visual Micro to people because it required VS Pro or higher (which I have because I've had my own MSDN subscription for years) but now they have VS Community Edition (http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx) which is free and supports extensions, unlike the old "Express" versions. So now you can use Visual Micro completely free :)

 

But yes, I've used Visual Micro for a couple of years now and it made we stop wanting to kill the terrible Arduino IDE :)

 

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Dwight Morgan <dwight.w.morgan at gmail.com> wrote:

Is anybody using the Visual Micro plugin with Visual Studio for Arduino? If so, would you recommend it?

 

Thanks!

 

Dwight


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