Visual Micro

Visual Micro: A free Microsoft Visual Studio plugin that can be used to create Arduino compatible cross-platform applications

Visual Micro is a free Microsoft Visual Studio plugin that can create Arduino compatible cross-platform applications and access to hundreds of Arduino libraries through the built-in library manager.

The plugin allows you to share the Arduino code you created with Windows, Linux and Mac Arduino community.

Because Visual Micro is compliant with standards of numerous hardware manufacturers, almost any newly released hardware can be programmed with this plugin with no need to perform a software update.

There is also a Pro version available that includes additional tools like serial ogging, a debugger, high speed build and shared library projects.