As you follow these steps for the first time after install, Visual Studio may prompt you to do various setup things – when it does just click the default option it is asking you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Click top left “Explorer” button > Open Folder<\/p>\n\n\n\n Create a folder somewhere you want to store your project and open it<\/p>\n\n\n\n Menu > File > New File <\/p>\n\n\n\n Menu > File > Save As > “main.c”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paste this code into the file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The C\/C++ SDK of Raspberry Pi Pico uses the CMake build automation tool which needs us to create “CMakeLists.txt”, containing the instructions describing the project sources files and targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Menu > File > New File <\/p>\n\n\n\n Menu > File > Save As > “CMakeLists.txt”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paste this code into the file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Close and re-open Visual Studio, Explorer > Open Folder > Open your project folder<\/p>\n\n\n\n Press the “Build” button in the bottom blue toolbar The project should build successfully<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Raspberry Pi Pico does not need a programmer, you instead drag and drop the binary file onto the Pico in Windows explorer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Plug the pico USB into your PC while holding down the BOOTSEL button on it (until the Windows system detects it). Then release the BOOTSEL button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This will have put the Pico into its Bootloader Mass-storage system mode and it should have appeared as a new drive in Windows Explorer named RPI-RP2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To run your program, drag the “.uf2” file from your projects “\\build” directory into the “RPI-RP2” folder. You should then see the LED start flashing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Create a new project As you follow these steps for the first time after install, Visual Studio may prompt you to do various setup things – when it does just click the default option it is asking you. Click top left “Explorer” button > Open Folder Create a folder somewhere you want to store your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visual-studio-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3540,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raspberry-projects.com\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Create main.c<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
#include \"pico\/stdlib.h\"\n\n\n#ifndef PICO_DEFAULT_LED_PIN\n\t#warning This example requires a board with a default LED\n#endif\n\n\/\/***********************************\n\/\/***********************************\n\/\/********** MAIN FUNCTION **********\n\/\/***********************************\n\/\/***********************************\nint main()\n{\n\t\/\/----- SETUP PINS -----\n\tconst uint IO_LED = PICO_DEFAULT_LED_PIN;\n\tgpio_init(IO_LED);\n\tgpio_set_dir(IO_LED, GPIO_OUT);\n\n\n\t\/\/---------------------\n\t\/\/---------------------\n\t\/\/----- MAIN LOOP -----\n\t\/\/---------------------\n\t\/\/---------------------\n\twhile (true)\n\t{\n\t\tgpio_put(IO_LED, 1);\n\t\tsleep_ms(200);\n\t\tgpio_put(IO_LED, 0);\n\t\tsleep_ms(200);\n\t}\n\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nCreate CMakeLists.txt<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
# Set minimum required version of CMake\ncmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12)\n#include build functions from Pico SDK\ninclude($ENV{PICO_SDK_PATH}\/external\/pico_sdk_import.cmake)\n# Set name of project (as PROJECT_NAME) and C\/C++ Standards\nproject(blink-led C CXX ASM)\nset(CMAKE_C_STANDARD 11)\nset(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)\n# Creates a pico-sdk subdirectory in our project for the libraries\npico_sdk_init()\n# point out the CMake, where to find the executable source file\nadd_executable(${PROJECT_NAME}\n main.c\n)\n# create map\/bin\/hex\/uf2 files.\npico_add_extra_outputs(${PROJECT_NAME})\n# Pull in our pico_stdlib which pulls in commonly used features (gpio, timer-delay etc)\ntarget_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}\n pico_stdlib\n)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nBuild the project<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
If prompted, select the \u201cGCC x.x.x arm-none-eabi\u201d build toolchain (you should then see this in the bottom blue toolbar – if another build tool is selected click the wrench+screwdriver button in the blue toolbar and select it instead).<\/p>\n\n\n\nRunning the project<\/h5>\n\n\n\n