Connect, Create, & Colloborate with Arduino Create

Arduino Create is a web based platform which you can use to connect, create, and colloborate to work with Arduino and related products.

This online platform (you will need to create username/password) enables Makers and Professional Developers to:

Write code

Access content

Configure boards(hardware)

Share Projects

Before Arduino Create, all these activities were fragmented and distributed over various tools, screens, etc.

Read all posts on Arduino on this site: http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/search?q=arduino

 Simply put the developer experience is now highly organized using just one tool-Arduino Create.

The next image explains it all.

Main Features:

• Always up-to-date online IDE
• Offers in-depth guided flows
• Configure easily Web Editor and Cloud
• Provides Arduino's Educational Program

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...

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.

 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.

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:

 New | Arduino Project

 Tools | Visual Micro

Now that you have installed the extension you can work with Arduino projects importing the Arduino 'Sketches' or creating from scratch.

Debugging Arduino from Visual Studio

Please review the following before you continue as they are related:
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2015/05/internet-of-things-arduino-and-visual.html

When you use the Local Debugger Tool in Visual Studio 2013 Community edition with your Arduino UNO board the build output windows as seen in this next image refers to a Serial Port Tool Bar.

If the board is not connected when you locally debug you get the following message in your build output window:

serialPortToolBar1

You may not see this Serial Port Toolbar unless you enable it as shown:

serialPortToolBar2

Since the board is not connected to the computer with the USB, the debugger is off and you get the message 'Port failed to open'.

serialPortToolBar3

Now I connect the Arduino UNO board to the laptop and on the Arduino UNO I click Reconnect and then I can stop/start/pause the processes to debug.

serialPortToolBar4

Placed a break point to see how to get to the local debugger windows.

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Reading Serial port:
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2015/06/arduinos-analog-serial-readout-with.html