Visual Studio 1.8.0 can't resolve variable

[Soupdragon]

Can anyone help me with this:

I'm trying out the 'threads' sample under Visual Studio 1.8.0. Not having much luck. I'm a newbie and have followed the Video tutorials to the letter and tried everything, including a complete new install of 1.8.0, but whenever I try to do anything in the ACTIONS list (build, pristine build, flash etc) I get this error.

If I try running commands from 'west', eg west build, west flash, they all work fine.

[Elfving]

Hi John!

Are you using Windows? And are you able to open any of the other examples avaiable? Eg. Blinky or hello world?

Best regards,

Elfving

[Soupdragon]

I think this is seriously messed up:

[Elfving]

Hello!

Soupdragon said:

often the 'Flash' and 'Erase Flash' ACTIONS are not available.

Soupdragon said:

I get a variety of problems, that all seem to go away if I exit Visual Studio and then restart it.

It will look a bit more organized when you press the nRF Connect for VS Code extention logo (second from the bottom on the left there).

That should also make the actions available, and might also explain why the "issues" are gone when you restart it from nRF Connect for Desktop. But in case it doesn't, see my response below.

Best regards,

Elfving

[Soupdragon]

Alas no luck. I've done a full re-installation as per instructions. Then I followed the nFR Connect for VS Code 'to the letter'. Very carefully. The only difference is that I used the latest 1.8.0 instead of 1.6.1. Everything seemed to go well until I tried to build the first example based on 'Blinky'.  See the error below:

west: error: argument <command>: invalid choice: 'build' (choose from 'init', 'update'.....

I don't know what else I can do. I'm beginning to feel Nordic products are not for me because the toolchain is too flaky,