The team at the engblaze blog have put together an easy to follow tutorial on how to work with Atmel Studio 6 and our Arduino projects. But why would you want to do this? Although the Arduino IDE makes life very simple, it hides a lot of debugging information and hides a lot of debugging tools. Furthermore, by learning to use Atmel Studio you can gain experience with a more complex IDE that you will need after changing development platforms to raw AVR. The tutorial takes you through all stages, including the compiler, linker and flashing the board with the compiled code.
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