I have just installed VS Code and was following the videos for building an application. My board does not show up on the nRF Connect tab connected devices. The status bar at the bottom indicates COM7 is connected and the volume is accessible via File Explorer.
The board is an nRF52 DK and I think the processor is a 52832. There is a sticker covering the MCU with this info:
PCA10040
V1.1.0
2016.23
682739971
The SDK and toolchain are version 1.8.0