As see on Twitter, a plugin for Visual Studio that allows you to use Visual Studio with an Arduino board. The instructions from the original post can be found below, and a link to the Arduino pluginin is provided.
##Arduino Plugin
The plugin needed can be found at visualmicro.com and is available for Visual Studio 2015. Instructions are provided for setting up VS, but are currently provided only in Japanese.
There are instructions provided in the link above. English translations are provided by @hisadg123 in the English Language section, and the original instruction in Japanese are provided at the bottom.
English Language
Japanese Language
The original page discussing instructions for using the plugin with an Arduboy are in Japanese. It should be possible to follow along from the Japanese post with Google Translate extension installed. And of course, testers of the plugin welcome .
Awesome, thanks ! I managed to get it set up, even managed a tiny little edit on a game… I can’t test it, I don’t have my arduboy yet. The code completion is brilliant.
This needs to be pinned. It will help people learning to code.
One thing, you need to declare the Arduboy as a “thing” (sorry, I don’t know the word to describe the concept in C++ (instance??))
Eg:
Arduboy aboy //aboy can be any descriptor, including Arduboy
before
void setup();
Then you can use code completion by typing
aboy. //after the '.' a dropdown list will display.
If only I had hours and hours of time to learn C++… Soon !
I got information about this plugin. This plugin will create environment dependent file (.vcxproj). Before code deployment, I think we should exclude .vcxproj. For more details, please check document on GitHub. Maybe .ino, .cpp and .h are enough for usual project.