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[JonnyBoats]

Atmel has a toolchain based upon Visual Studio called Studio 5. You can download it for free at:

http://www.atmel.com...IO&ici=apr_2011

Does anyone know if this will work with a Netduino?

[CW2]

Does anyone know if this will work with a Netduino?

No, it will not work with Netduino - AVR Studio is used to program AVR microcontrollers in C/C++. Actually, the current beta version will not work with some most popular AVR programmers neither, because it does not support STK500 protocol; hopefully it will be included in the final release (as promised).

[José Ángel]

Wow, I didn´t know that Microsoft gives the opportunity to use a Visual Studio based editor to other companies. I prefer this than the lMPLAB X from Microchip based on Eclipse Incredible!

[JonnyBoats]

Wow, I didn´t know that Microsoft gives the opportunity to use a Visual Studio based editor to other companies. I prefer this than the lMPLAB X from Microchip based on Eclipse

Incredible!

I did not know this either before I saw this post. Wouldn't it be good if we could use VS to generate native code directly for our Netduinos!

[CW2]

I did not know this either before I saw this post. Wouldn't it be good if we could use VS to generate native code directly for our Netduinos!

Unfortunately, Visual Studio-based shell is intended primarily for hosting programming languages and software development tools, it does not come with any compiler (i.e. Atmel uses it just as front-end GUI for their tools). VS IDE can be used to launch third-party compilers/linkers (*) etc., but personally I would like to have C++/CLI for ARM - Microsoft already has ARM compiler for years, in embedded Windows SKDs (CE, now the newest Embedded Compact 7).

(*) I was developing VS IDE for MCS-51 toolchains (i.e. Keil C51, SDCC etc.), but there was a serious issue with custom linker build command that did not support passing multiple inputs, fixing that would require implementation of the complete custom build system - which is now possible due to the new common project system and because the whole build system is based on MSBuild.

[José Ángel]

Unfortunately, Visual Studio-based shell is intended primarily for hosting programming languages and software development tools, it does not come with any compiler (i.e. Atmel uses it just as front-end GUI for their tools). VS IDE can be used to launch third-party compilers/linkers (*) etc., but personally I would like to have C++/CLI for ARM - Microsoft already has ARM compiler for years, in embedded Windows SKDs (CE, now the newest Embedded Compact 7).

(*) I was developing VS IDE for MCS-51 toolchains (i.e. Keil C51, SDCC etc.), but there was a serious issue with custom linker build command that did not support passing multiple inputs, fixing that would require implementation of the complete custom build system - which is now possible due to the new common project system and because the whole build system is based on MSBuild.

Wow, it's very interesting the Visual Studio based shell. I think that it's not being used a lot due to that only works on Windows OS

[teachop]

I was bummed Atmel did this. This is for both AVR and AVR32. The AVR32 Studio version prior was based on eclipse, and was thus cross platform. Not now. Also I tried the beta and it didn't go so well. Meh...