Embedded code development (especially for PIC with C18) in Visual Studio
embedded, ide, pic, pic18, visual-studio
Solution
Unfortunately, there is no official support for PIC by Visual Studio. And, I didn't ever hear that someone has made this in an "unofficial" way. There have always been rumors and speculations about such a feature, but never get a chance to be realized. So, the answer is "no", there is no way of compiling .hex file with the standard Visual Studio IDE.
Problem
I'm using Visual Studio for writing desktop applications, and I find it very user friendly and easy to use. If possible, I also want to write embedded code in Visual Studio. For example, is it possible to generate .hex files for PIC18Fxxx series with C18 or any other similar C-based language?