Installing Visual Micro into Visual Studio (with Arduino)

A walk through of installing the Visual Micro Extension for Visual Studio, in conjunction with the Arduino IDE. Read on for links and more information..

Only Visual Studio 2019 is required before following this guide, and if you have never used Arduino or Installed Visual Studio Extensions before this is the best place to get started.

Change Note: In VS2017/VS2019 the extension has to be manually downloaded and installed as shown on our downloads page:

NOTE: You may need to manually install the C++ Workload into VS, if this is not installed automatically with Visual Micro (see Getting Started Link below).

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[lucianbetke]

You are my hero. thanks you for the good introduction

[RobertGeyerMusic]

Hey, thanks for the product! I'm testing it right now and having a good time with it. There is one thing that I don't understand: After compiling it launches the debugger and opens the Serial Monitor. It takes up to 5 seconds for the program to start on the arduino, even when resetting the arduino after that without serial connection. In the usual Arduino IDE it's almost instant. Is there any workaround or setting I'm missing? The startupdelay is on 0.
Thanks!

[vdunnell]

It would be nice if in your videos, you would hover over the links you are goin to click on long enough for people to see what you are going to click on before you actually click on it. YOU should always before you move the mouse say the name of the link, button, or image, then perform the action slowly. Some of us are doing this stuff for the first time.

[markdlehane]

I'm confused by this product. I can't see any advantage over using PlatformIO with Visual Studio. I can build with an Arduino framework, Simba and many more. I can also use the Arduino libraries and lots more too. What is the advantage of this? The video doesn't show it in use.

[stmohir]

Why did you download a instance of Arduino and not use the one in the program files, should I do that or just use my regular Arduino

[RandomTorok]

Ok this video needs an update. Typing Arduino into the Extension manager does not bring up Visual Micro.

[alzalame]

Hi, i want to start with Visual Micro and Visual Studio, which programming language i must learn, i'am focusing on arduino/microcontrolers ?

[josephtanner]

Hello I just installed Visual Micro. But I miss the menue "Try, Buy, Activate...
(German Visual Studio)

[خالدرشدى-كذ]

Support "sim800l + rc522 + dfplayer "modules?!

[EduardoRodrigues-qoyp]

I cannot seem to get this installed on Mac.
I downloaded the .vsix and none of the options to install it makes any good

It seems the version I have is not like the one in the video.
I have just downloaded.
Is it supposed to work on Mac?
Is there a particular version of VS I should use?