emCode User Manual

Table of contents

• Install emCode

• Develop a project

• Manage the boards

• Solve issues

• Appendixes

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What is emCode?

emCode is a set of tools to ease development for the most popular embedded computing boards supported by the Arduino SDK. Those tools are designed to be used with the excellent Visual Studio Code IDE.

For convenience, emCode relies on the Arduino SDK, as it packs and manages the tool-chains, frameworks and utilities for a large range of boards.

emCode is the continuation of embedXcode , which pioneered the use of a professional IDE with all the modern amenities.

Compared with embedXcode, emCode has two notable differences: emCode is no longer designed for Xcode but for Visual Studio Code; emCode no longer targets macOS but Linux and Windows with Windows Sub-system for Linux (WSL).

Today, the offer of advanced IDEs for the Arduino SDK is large. Let’s mention

• Arduino 2.0 IDE based on Eclipse Theia;
• PlatformIO for Visual Studio Code;
• Visual Micro for Visual Studio on Windows only; and
• Visual Studio Code with the Arduino extension .

Critical

The Arduino extension for Visual Studio Code is deprecated since 01 October 2024. Microsoft recommends using the Arduino IDE.

Happy development!

— Rei Vilo

Links

Please find the main links for emCode.

	emCode
Website	Download	User manual	RSS feed	LinkedIn

Conventions

This website uses the following typographic conventions:

• Keywords and folders names are in Terminal font:

Download and install Arduino 2.0 under the /Applications folder.

• Code is displayed with Terminal font in a light grey box:

#include "Arduino.h"

• Notes and warnings are displayed inside coloured boxes.

Danger

Warning

Info

Note

Example

• Applications are in Sans Serif bold font.

Open a Terminal window.

• Elements of the interface and menus are presented using Sans Serif bold font. Keyboard shortcuts and mouse actions are framed.

Call the menu File > New > New Project… or press Shift+Cmd+N.

• A mentions an external link to the web.

The local libraries should comply with the Arduino IDE 1.5: Library specification..

• Dates are stated as DD MMM YYYY, with DD for day, MMM for month in plain letters, and YYYY for year.

10 Dec 2018 | 10.3.4 | Updated support for Arduino 1.8.8 IDE