connected devices sidebar view "vanished"

[KentH]

I can't get my connected devices sidebar view back. I see several people asking how to devices to show up in the view, but my problem is no view at all. I have attached a screen-grab of the bottom left hand corner where it used to be. I have clicked on an one of the other views to show the pop-up options, none of which are "connected devices". At present there are two nRF52840 DKs connected (testing communications between them). Used to be able to select the kit, pop up the virtual console, reboot, etc. But now no view at all.

I read thru other comments. Deleted the nordic extensions, used the tool-kit manager to reinstall them -- without luck. Deleted $(HOME)/.vscode & reinstalled a bunch of extensions with no luck. Really nice feature in constant use. ????

On a M1 Mac with latest version of everything (Feb 2024).

[Simonr]

Hi

I will have to report this to the VS code extension developers as I'm not able to reproduce this on my end. Do you have any details on what happened/ caused the Connected Devices bar to disappear. Also, have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling VS Code altogether from your computer?

I'll come back to you when I have some ideas/ action points from our devs. Thank you for your patience!

Best regards,

Simon

[KentH]

• I was testing comms between two nrf52840 boards. Looking at comms on east using comms on both via connected devices  then the sidebar was gone!  Maybe I entered a keyboard command aimed at another window. Maybe it was a vs code service that decided to go rogue and run up 100g of virtual memory (which it was doing at the time). Would just like my sidebar back. I thought removing and restoring the Nordic plugins would fix it but no I had involve you