Support for VS Code or VS

[reesesm2000]

When can we expect some kind of support for using VS Code or VS as the IDE. The CCS C IDE is seriously lacking in capabilities and has not seemed to evolved much since I first used it in the early 2000s. The current IDE seems to trip over itself all the time highlighting errors that are not errors and which clear as soon as you compile but come back as soon as you start writing new code. There is no 'intellisense'. Just seems making it work with VS Code would be a much easier 'fix'.

[Ttelmah]

Try searching the forum.

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http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29216&highlight=visual+studio

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Understand with suitable rules setup, you can write your code with the
VS syntax checking, and it is possible to call the CCS compiler, but not
the programmer or the debugger. So writing tool, but not an IDE.
There are quite a few other tool sets you can use as alternative syntax
checkers. I often write the code in Linux using Lint and Vi and then just
copy the code to the CCS IDE to compile.

Honestly the best IDE, is still the old MPLAB 8.92. it's only problem is
lack of support for newer chips.

Talk to CCS about the problems you have with the IDE. 99.9% of the time
it works fine.

[reesesm2000]

Hi Ttelmah

I did find that thread but that is more a kludge than actually supporting VS Code or VS. VS Code is such a rich environment and it would probably take less effort to support it than it does to maintain the current CCS C one. Just seems like it could be a really valuable addition to the product that would add a ton of value. I would even be inclined to pay more for the ability to use VS Code.

[Ttelmah]

Seriously, no.
To actually add the external tools and support to VS Code, would probably
be something like a 2500 man hour project. Also, though you like VS Code,
it hangs and gives more problems than the CCS IDE does. I've had it lose
complete files (which CCS has never done).
Unless someone had a lot of time available, it is not going to happen.