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Better Visual Studio support #988

Open SoftwareSamurai opened 7 years ago

SoftwareSamurai commented 7 years ago

I would like to suggest two improvements to the Visual Studio support in PlatformIO.

1) Support multiple boards in Visual Studio.

It could be as simple as modifying the CLI like this: "platformio init --ide visualstudio --board teensy31 --board esp32dev"

Each board would generate a new project. The project files should be named according to the board it supports, not just "platformio.vcxproj / platformio.vcxproj.filters". (Note that the ProjectGuid must be unique per project. It currently is not.)

All projects should then be placed into a single solution. (Currently the solution file is not automatically generated. It should be.) The solution file can be named "platformio.sln" - that's fine.

2) Provide a way to update the project files without completely overwriting them.

Something like: "platformio refresh --ide visualstudio --board teensy31 --board esp32dev"

When new libraries are installed, they must be added to the projects. This needs to be done without destroying the current project files. A developer may have made many changes unique to each project that need to be preserved. (Folders, files, settings, etc.)

mikeym88 commented 4 years ago

Is this being actively worked on? If not, I'd be interested in working on this feature and submitting a pull request.