Visual Micro Tutorials #2: For the Novices

Today's Visual Micro Tutorial is for the novices, the people new to Arduino and programming. Sticking to the basics.

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[TimLeek]

Great detail in this video thanks! A few comments that might help... 

1) If you show the Visual Micro Boards Toolbar it contains an icon that is a yellow question mark "?". The button opens the Arduino examples and help explorer.

2) In recent Visual Micro versions, when clicking an example, select "Open Copy". This option will create a new sketch based on the example. The location of the sketch will not cause the permissions problem correctly described in the video. It is also useful to open a copy which can be modified and used for testing without destroying the original Arduino example.  (btw: didn't know about the problem, thanks!).

This image shows the choices that appear when clicking an

[agnichatian]

Did you have to install the 'Terminal for Atmel Studio' extension, which is not installed by default, to get the terminal ?

[siaveshmamle]

Please help me!
I have installed both Atmel Studio 7 and vMicro on my Windows 10.
When I connect to my Arduino Uno and will upload the program I have written, I get an error. (An error was encountered during the 'Deep Search' library discovery process. Debug build failed for project 'Test01_Atmel')
It also marked the void loop () line with a red circle.

[johnhsieh]

Thanks for the video everything works great except for some reason my visual assist doesn't do anything. I went through the two videos again and did a full instillation. Nothing just seems to highlight to and I can't jump to. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

[martshal]

For the second time I've fully installed Atmel Studio and Visual Micro on a computer.  Once again there is no auto completion and very little color visualization. Comments and basic C constructs colorized (void, while, char, etc., but not setup(), or loop(), or if I start typing "Seri.." it will not complete to Serial).  I've set various Visual Assist options to max, no luck. I've look up terms like "auto completion not working" on the visual micro site... nothing.  Has anyone else had this problem, can you direct me to a solution, or should I just go back to the Eclipse AVR solution.

[Droidfoon]

I will continue to watch your series, but honestly this video is not a tutorial at all, it is just you saying "oh i can't show you that cause i don't have an arduino connected" and "well i can't demonstrate it but just trust me it is better" ... seriously? why would you even post this? To show that you are not actually going to show how to use it? alright, you did that, but what was the purpose?