Friday, September 9, 2016
Internet of Things Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition and Arduino
Internet of Things Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition and Arduino
Visual Studio 2015 Community is a one-stop tool by Microsoft for most things and you can use the same tool for working with Arduino/Intel line of IOT boards. However, a default installation of VS 2015 Community does not support these boardss. You need to install an extension available online as shown here:
Launch Visual Studio 2015 and click on Tools | Extensions and Updates...
Click Download and the program starts downloading the VSIX (5.55.MB) installer.
It is now ready to install but accept the license terms and click Install.
New | Arduino Project
Tools | Visual Micro
Launch Visual Studio 2015 and click on Tools | Extensions and Updates...
In the search box for items online, type Arduino and Click search. Arduino IDE for Visual Studio get displayed in the results pane as shown.
It is now ready to install but accept the license terms and click Install.
It takes a little while to install and after it is installed you get the following message. You need to restart for changes to take effect,
Restart VS 2015 Community and there are items in Menu, Tools and Project where you can see that the installation has been effective.
vMicro menu item:
Now that you have installed the extension you can work with Arduino projects importing the Arduino Sketches or creating from scratch.
Available link for download
