- Raspberry Pi 4 Visual Studio Codes
- Install Visual Studio Code Raspberry Pi 4
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In this guide, you’ll learn how to install and use Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code on the Raspberry Pi. Visual Studio Code, often shortened to VSCode, is an integrated development environment (IDE) that has a bunch of handy features that make writing code more straightforward, such as syntax highlighting, code completion, easier refactoring, and git built-in.
- Debugging C/C Code on a Raspberry Pi with Visual Studio. So recently I’ve been playing around with Raspberry Pi type Internet of Things (IoT) devices In my case I’m experimenting with OrangePi Zero and the C.H.I.P. Both of these are way small, way powerful processor headless computers.
- Four years ago I wrote how to BUILD (literally compile) Visual Studio Code for a Raspberry Pi ARM machine.Just a few months later in November, community member Jay Rodgers released his labor of love - nightly builds of VS Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi.
If you’re not familiar, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an open source C development environment from Microsoft. It is available for Windows, macOS and x64 Linux, and now you can run it on Raspberry Pi too.
The tool supports text editing, full web development (with JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js) and git source code control. It supports extensions too (although not all of them), so you can further expand its capabilities.
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VS Code is available for Debian Linux on x64, and there are also builds for ARM and ARM64 that can run on Raspberry Pi OS. (If you have a new $4 Raspberry Pi Pico, you’ll be pleased to know the VS Code is installed as part of the setup from the official Getting Started Guide.)
Because it’s part of the Raspberry Pi OS apt packages, it’s very easy to install Visual Studio Code on your Pi. Just launch Terminal and run the following commands:
Once installed, you can run VS Code from the Programming folder in the Pi menu (see the screenshot at the top).
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Explaining what’s so good about the ability to install Visual Studio Code on a Raspberry Pi, Microsoft’s Jim Bennett explains that 'There are already some great editors, but nothing of the calibre of VS Code. I can take my $35 computer, plug it into a keyboard and mouse, connect a monitor and a TV and code in a wide range of languages from the same place.'
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There's been a lot of folks, myself included, who have tried to install VS Code on the Raspberry Pi. In fact, there's a lovely process for this now. However, we have to ask ourselves is a Raspberry Pi really powerful enough to be running a full development environment and the app being debugged? Perhaps, but maybe this is a job for remote debugging. That means installing Visual Studio Code locally on my Windows or Mac machine, then having Visual Studio code install its headless server component (for ARM7) on the Pi.
In January I blogged about Remote Debugging with VS Code on a Raspberry Pi using .NET Core on ARM. It was, and is, a little hacked together with SSH and wishes. Let's set up a proper VS Code Remote environment so I can be productive on a Pi while still enjoying my main laptop's abilities.
- First, can you ssh into your Raspberry Pi without a password prompt?
- If not, be sure to set that up with OpenSSH, which is now installed on Windows 10 by default.
- You know you've got it down when you can 'ssh pi@mypi' and it just drops you into a remote prompt.
- Next, get Visual Studio Code Insiders plus
- Remote Development Extension
- Uninstall the 'Remote - SSH' Extensions, disabling them isn't enough because you want to replace them with..
- Important - Remote - SSHNightly Builds
- Remote Development Extension
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From within VS Code Insiders, hit Ctrl/CMD+P and type 'Remote-SSH' for some of the choices.
I can connect to Host and VS Code will SSH into the PI and install the VS Code server components in ~./vscode-server-insiders and then connect to them. It will take a minute as its downloading a 25 meg GZip and unzipping it into this temp folder. You'll know you're connected when you see this green badge as seen below that says 'SSH: hostname.'
Then when you go 'File | Open Folder' from the main menu, you'll get the remote system's files! You are working and editing locally on remote files.
Note here that some of the extensions are NOT installed locally! The Python language services (using Jedi) are running remotely on the Raspberry Pi, so when I get intellisense, I'm getting it remoted from the actual machine I'm developing on, not a guess from my local box.
When I open a Terminal with Ctrl+~, see that I'm automatically getting a remote terminal and I've even running htop in it!
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Homebrew sourcetree. Check this out, I'm doing a remote interactive debugging session against CrowPi samples running on the Raspberry Pi (in Python 2) remotely from VS Code on my Windows 10 machine! I did need to make one change to the remote settings as it was defaulting to Python3 and I wanted to use Python2 for these samples.
This has been a very smooth process and I remain super impressed with the VS Remote Development experience. I'll be looking at containers, and remote WSL debugging soon as well. Next step is to try C#, remotely, which will mean making sure the C# OmniSharp Extension works on ARM and remotely.
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