How to get back the welcome page back in Visual studio code with nrf connect extension?

[Arron]

 

I suddenly lost the welcome page for nrfconnect in Vscode and was wondering if anyone knows how to fix that.?

[Arron]

Alright, they have changed the view for latest release. nRF Connect - nRF Connect for VS Code , starting this month's release.

[Joe Kane]

Wow. I was pulling my hair out on this, trying to figure out what I did to lose the welcome screen.

@Nordic,

Such sweeping changes to the plug-in, build process, toosl, and GUI should have been well communicated or made through a major version change.

The upgrade to 2023.9.169 (for me) also created the permanent "Build Configuration is stale. Perform Pristine Build" on all my projects, and even in new projects.

For a test I reverted  back to the previous version of NRF Connect for VSCODE (July Release), and the pristine build problem went away.

[Arron]

It took me 2-3 days to learn that, I was on a similar boat and trying to find and fix, if something was broken.