Visual Studio Code and a portable Arduino IDE

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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I picked up a nice trick on these fora wherein one can safely and easily run different versions of the IDE by setting each up as a "portable" installation.

Now I would like to try Visual Studio Code as a step up from the Arduino IDE, but I stick at a very early move, which states that I need to have "the" Arduino IDE installed.

I'll keep googling, but so far I cannot find if and how if it is possible to use VSC hooked up to a "portable" IDE.

If you have done this, how? If you know this is not possible tell me! I'll have to weigh going un-portable with the Arduino IDE, TBH I mostly use just one anyway, against the benefits of the VSC.

Mostly I am OK with the Arduino IDE, but I do understand the criticisms and comments that appear from time to time and thought I would see about something more whatever.

TIA

a7

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You can configure the path to the Arduino IDE installation in the VS Code extension's section of settings.json:

Option Description
arduino.path Path to Arduino, you can use a custom version of Arduino by modifying this setting to include the full path. Example: C:\Program Files\Arduino for Windows, /Applications for Mac, /home//Downloads/arduino-1.8.1 for Linux. (Requires a restart after change). The default value is automatically detected from your Arduino IDE installation path.

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THX and a tip o’ the hat @pert.

a7

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