VS Code was not detected on your system.

RE: VS Code was not detected on your system.

user72009 — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:32:36 GMT

I too was wondering why VS code wasn't detected by the Tool Chain Manager, even when I had specified that VS Code be added to the path.
It turns out that if your windows PATH environment variable is already quite long, then, when it adds the VS Code directory to the PATH, that can take it over the limit of 260 characters, and then the Tool Chain Manager will fail to 'detect' VS code.
The solution in my case was to manually prune any obsolete directory entries from the PATH, then the Tool Chain Manager successfully detects and launches VS Code.
(My thanks to AndreKR for identifying that it was path related issue in the first place)

RE: VS Code was not detected on your system.

user112696 — Mon, 23 May 2022 11:30:24 GMT

Silly me, I just realized that of course the Toolchain Manager is open source, so it's easy to see that the "detection" actually just tries to run code --list-extensions. I confirmed with Process Monitor that this command is executed with an unmodified PATH, so VS Code would actually have to be in PATH. Since of course on my machine it is not, this mechanism will fail.

RE: VS Code was not detected on your system.

user112696 — Mon, 23 May 2022 11:25:25 GMT

I have not tried upgrading because I had to downgrade from 3.8 to 3.7 as described here to make my PPK2 work.

I only have one SDK installed (they are quite big), that is v1.9.1.

RE: VS Code was not detected on your system.

user111786 — Mon, 23 May 2022 11:10:20 GMT

Hi,

Have you tried updating nRF Connect for Desktop and Toolchain Manager to the newest versions?

In Toolchain Manager, from which nRF Connect SDK (NCS) version you cannot open VS Code? Do you get the same issue with other installed versions of NCS?

Best regards,
Dejan

RE: VS Code was not detected on your system.

user112696 — Mon, 23 May 2022 10:49:38 GMT

Isn't it clear from the screenshot? I have VS Code installed. I installed the Toolchain Manager using nRF Connect for Desktop and I installed an SDK using the Toolchain Manager. When I then click "Open VS Code" in the Toolchain Manager, I get "VS Code was not detected on your system", even though VS Code is actually running at the same time.

RE: VS Code was not detected on your system.

user111786 — Mon, 23 May 2022 08:34:29 GMT

Hi,

Could you provide more information about the issue?
What did you try to do before error appeared?
You could try updating nRF Connect for Desktop as well as Toolchain Manager.

Best regards,
Dejan