Visual Studio Code Insiders Download
Itaete Chambers
If anybody tries to acquire a stable binary of code-insider, you might check the flake: GitHub - iosmanthus/code-insiders-flake. This repo creates a github action to sync the code-insider every day and produce a stable manifest.
A quick tip that is 100% thanks to the Visual Studio Code twitter account. For a while now I've been able to run Visual Studio Code from WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) by simply doing code . in the directory I'm working in. However, a few months ago I switched to the Insiders build. I was hesitant to do so as it seemed like it would be risky, but after one of Microsoft's engineers assured me it was safe I gave it a try.
I think in the last few months I've seen one case where a bug was introduced that forced me back to the "regular" Code for a few days. Outside of that I've enjoyed getting the new features earlier and it is now my primary editor. (And to be clear, you can absolutely have both installed, and running, at the same time.)
However, I noticed recently I wasn't able to run the Insiders editor from within WSL. I could still run code, but nothing worked for the Insiders build. After asking about this on Twitter, I got this:
Duh. I did a quick echo $PATH and saw that Code's path was available, but not Insiders. I hadn't even noticed it, but WSL automatically includes your Windows PATH setting into the Bash shell, so to fix this, I simply added it there. Another nice surprise (one I found a few months ago), is that Windows made editing your path a heck of a lot easier.
So - I added it - fired up a new Ubuntu shell - and bam, I could run code-insiders . and it worked right away. Note that if you do this under a Ubuntu directory, Insiders won't be able to view the files. But if you open it open /mnt/c (or lower) then Insiders correctly loads the proper Windows directory. I'll probably also make an alias so I can type fewer characters. I have a confession to make though. As much as I love using WSL I'm still very much new to Bash stuff.
Just moved in from Manjaro, I know that code and code-git from AUR are full OS not Microsoft branded as visual-studio-code-bin or visual-studio-code-insiders-bin.
I use visual-studio-code-bin or visual-studio-code-insiders-bin so I can Sync my settings.
Now with Garuda when I click on the 'Accounts' option nothing happens!
I install the same package in Manjaro and I have never had this issue.
Thanks
Thank you for this package. Just a small thing: can you change the StartupWMClass to code-insiders-url-handler which is the correct one? Otherwise, it will display an incorrect app icon under wayland.
@vschwaberow I've successfully installed it with paru -S visual-studio-code-insiders-bin, can confirm same error as you with yay. One workaround, which is not recommended, is running yay -S visual-studio-code-insiders-bin --overwrite '*' to ignore the file conflicts with this -debug package until it's solved by the maintainer.
Btw, another thing that I personally don't care about but you might want to check the next time you plan on pushing an update: on the visual-studio-code-insiders.desktop file, the "New Empty Window" action has the same issue.
In .NET Interactive Preview 2, we announced that in addition to Jupyter Notebook and Jupyter Lab, users could use nteract as well. In this preview, users can add VS Code Insiders to that list. With the VS Code Insiders experience, users can get started with .NET notebooks without needing to install Jupyter. The VS Code experience is still a work in progress, and is only available in VS Code Insiders. We look forward to your feedback.
Every notebook has a default language. A new blank notebook starts with a C# cell, as noted in the lower right corner of the cell. If you click on C# (.NET Interactive), you can change the language of the cell. If you change the language of the cell, the next cell you create will continue with that language.
.NET Interactive provides subkernels for three languages (C#, F#, and PowerShell) within the same process. You can share variables between the .NET subkernels using the #!share magic command. Once a variable has been declared in one of these subkernels, it can be accessed from another. And because these kernels run in the same process, if the type of a variable is a reference type, changes to its state can be observed immediately from other kernels.
There are a few ways to use #!value to store data in a notebook session. The example below shows you how to do it from the clipboard. For examples of other ways to use it, including reading from files and URLs, please check out Direct data entry with #!value.
.NET Interactives has APIs available that simplify the process of directly writing HTML and JavaScript in the same notebook where you write .NET code. This enables you to create custom visualizations and access the broader ecosystem of JavaScript libraries without needing .NET wrappers.
extensionsFromVscodeMarketplace is a manual way to fetch extensions. However, to keep updated from upstream, nix-community/nix-vscode-extensions provides the Nix expressions for the majority of available extensions from Open VSX and VSCode Marketplace. A GitHub Action updates the extensions daily.
With the package vscode.fhs, the editor launches inside a FHS compliant chroot environment using buildFHSUserEnv. This reintroduces directories such as /bin, /lib, and /usr, which allows for extensions which ship pre-compiled binaries to work with little to no additional nixification.
If you need to test a recent code change, you can run the insiders build. It is designed to run alongside the main build, with a separate code-insiders command and a different config path, so you can leave your main VS Code instance installed/running.
Instead of using configuration.nix to add packages (e.g. Python or NodeJS) for developing code on VSCode, you can instead use nix-shell. This will allow you to seamlessly create development environments with the correct packages for your project, without rebuilding and restarting NixOS. See this page for further instructions in building nix-shell development environments.
The extension nix-env-selector will make switching between different nix-shell environments within VSCode so you can switch between different coding projects easily and manually. It has a guide for setting up nix-shell environments for VSCode.
Nixpkgs contains a script which will run code --list-extensions, then look for the latest available versions of those extensions, and output a list which you can add to your Nix config in a format similar to the above. To use it, clone the nixpkgs repo from GitHub, and run: nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/extensions/update_installed_exts.sh
The remote-ssh extension works by connecting to a remote host and downloading scripts and pre-built binaries to $HOME/.vscode-server. When first launching remote-ssh for a NixOS host, the connection will fail due to the provided node.js not having been built for a NixOS system (the dynamic libraries aren't in the same place).
If instead you'd prefer to fix the binaries manually and have to do so every time that you upgrade your VS Code version, then you can install the nodejs-16_x package on the NixOS host and replace the VS Code provided version. This workaround is described here: -remote-release/issues/648#issuecomment-503148523. Note that NodeJS needs to be updated according to VS Code upstream requirements (NodeJS 16 required from 4/2022).
Similar to SSH hosts, both nix-vscode-server and nix-ld solution allows a VSCode Windows client to connect a NixOS-WSL host. However, by default the VSCode Windows client uses wsl.exe --exec to start the code server, which bypasses NixOS environment variables required by nix-ld, resulting in failures.
You can sign into Live Share using any Azure Active Directory backed work or school account, a Microsoft account, or a GitHub profile. Typically sign-in URLs for these are open in most organizations given the number of public facing products that use them, but if not, contact your network administrator about opening up login.microsoftonline.com and/or github.com in addition to the domains listed below.
To ensure optimal performance, by default Visual Studio Live Share automatically detects whether a collaboration session host machine and guest machine can communicate directly over a network and only relays via the cloud if there is no route between them. This mixed "auto" mode is flexible and even allows some guests to relay through the cloud while others connect directly for the same session.
The direct connections are authenticated via a cloud based mechanism to ensure security but require a port between 5990 and 5999 be opened to enable the connectivity. As a result, when sharing for the first time your desktop firewall may prompt you open a port. Accepting this is optional as ignoring it will simply cause Live Share to always use the relay when in auto mode.
All connections in Visual Studio Live Share are SSH or SSL encrypted and authenticated against a central service to ensure that only those in the collaboration session can gain access to its content. In addition, Live Share's cloud relay does not persist any traffic routed through it and does not "snoop" the traffic in any way.
As outlined above, direct mode requires that your personal firewall allow vsls-agent, code or code - insiders to accept connections in the port range 5990-5999. If you want to use direct mode but have found that your firewall does not have vsls-agent entry, you can add it manually. How you do this will vary by firewall software, but you can find information about configuring the Windows Firewall here.
Visual Studio Live Share currently has some limitations around proxy use. While automatic proxy settings should work on Windows, when using macOS or Linux (and with certain proxy configurations on Windows) the HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables will need to be set globally for VS or in Application > Proxy settings for VS Code.
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