Installing nRF Connect for VS Code

[Bret Foreman]

When I look at my toolchain manager, it looks like nRF Connect SDK is installed:

And, I can click the "Open VS Code" button and browse to one of the examples (the uart):

But, when I try to run it, I get a message that nRF Connect is not installed:

If I click on the install button, it opens the tool chain manager, which says that nRF Connect is installed.

How can I fix this?

[Bret Foreman]

Any update on how I can get VS Code to install an my Windows 11 Pro laptop? As you can see in the screen shots above, it doesn't work.

[Amanda Hsieh]

Hi, 

If you are using nRF5 SDK, please use SES 5.42a instead of VS Code. We don't support VS Code for nRF5 SDK. 

To develop with VS Code, you could use NCS. 

-Amanda H