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I know and I can program any AVR microcontroller with Arduino IDE and Arduino Uno board. Can I use Arduino board with AVR Studio? Or I have to buy an AVR Development board?

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You can use Atmel Studio to write code for the MCU(s) on the Arduino boards. If the IDE itself does not support uploading the code to the Arduino then it is still possible to use AVRDUDE or BOSSA to upload it via the command line.

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Using Atmel Studio, could he program via ISP (SPI)? I have never tried it as I have a Dragon and STK500. –  PhillyNJ Jan 28 at 18:40
    
I'm sure he could. But the Arduino likely already has a perfectly good bootloader on it for serial uploading. –  Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jan 28 at 18:55
    
@IgnacioVazquez-Abrams Then what happens If wanted to upload code from Atmel Studio while Arduino has it's own bootloader loaded on the MCU? Does that matter? –  Zgrkpnr__ Jan 30 at 15:21
    
@Zgrkpnr__: All the Arduino bootloader does is allow serial programming instead of requiring ISP. It does not affect the development environment in any other way. –  Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jan 30 at 16:44
    
@IgnacioVazquez-Abrams You are giving answers as If you read my mind. –  Zgrkpnr__ Jan 30 at 19:40
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There is an Arduino plugin available for AVR Studio, which allows you to upload sketches to an Arduino, just like you would with the Arduino IDE. I think this also enables you to upload plain C/C++ files created with the standard AVR tools.

Alternatively, if you have an AVR ISP programmer, you can use this to upload compiled C/C++ to the Arduino from AVR studio without needing the Arduino plugin.

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