Automatic board selection

[AndriuxaNoMercy]

Would be great to have last used board stored and loaded on IDE start-up.
What could be even more awesome is an option to #define board prefered for current sketch.

Picking up first available COM port automatically would probably suit at least half of users, as there is rarely several boards bphisically attached to PC...

[kittaakos]

Thank you for your input, @AndriuxaNoMercy

Would be great to have last used board stored and loaded on IDE start-up.

We restore the last selected board if it was available as an attached one.

What could be even more awesome is an option to #define board prefered for current sketch.

This is a work in progress with the sketch.json. See here.

Picking up first available COM port automatically would probably suit at least half of users

If it would work only for half of the users, probably we need a better strategy than picking the first COM port.

Also related: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-pro-ide/issues/338

[per1234]

Would be great to have last used board stored and loaded on IDE start-up.

Fixed by c86d82d

What could be even more awesome is an option to #define board prefered for current sketch.

There is a dedicated issue for this subject: #2438