Visual Studio Code and VNA Tools

[Michael Wollensack METAS]

I would like to run/debug a script from VS Code and not from the built-in script engine of VNA Tools.

[Michael Wollensack METAS]

1. You need Visual Studio code, see https://code.visualstudio.com/

2. You need CPython, see https://www.python.org/

3. You need Pythonnet, see https://pypi.org/project/pythonnet/

4. You need the Python extension for VS Code, see https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python

5. Now you can load your existing python script and add the following lines:

RootPath = r'C:\Users\Public\Documents\Metas.Vna.Tools\Projects\01_Basic_Example_N(f-m)'

VNAToolsPath = r'C:\Program Files (x86)\METAS\Metas.Vna.Tools'

import sys

sys.path.append(VNAToolsPath)

6. Or you create a new script form the following template:

RootPath = r'C:\Users\Public\Documents\Metas.Vna.Tools\Projects\01_Basic_Example_N(f-m)'

VNAToolsPath = r'C:\Program Files (x86)\METAS\Metas.Vna.Tools'

import sys

sys.path.append(VNAToolsPath)

import clr

clr.AddReference('System.Windows.Forms')

clr.AddReference('Metas.Vna.Tools')

from System.Threading import Thread

from System.Windows.Forms import MessageBox

from Metas.Vna.Tools import Script

s = Script(RootPath)

Be aware that VNA Tools script engine is using IronPython and the above example is using CPython with the Pythonnet package.

There are some differences between IronPython and CPython with the Pythonnet package, e.g.: object initialization in pythonnet, see https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet/issues/2038.