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Using Visual Studio Code on Bianca

VSCode fails, use VSCodium instead

The approach below will fail (note that using VSCode on Rackham does work).

Instead, go to the page Using VSCodium on Bianca

Introduction

There are multiple IDEs on Bianca, among other VSCodium. Here we discuss that running VSCode on Bianca will fail.

Visual Studio Code ('VSCode') is an IDE that can be used for software development in many languages.

What is an IDE?

See the page on IDEs.

In this session, we show how to use VSCode on Bianca.

Procedure to start VSCode

1. Install VSCode on your local computer

2. Start VSCode on your local computer

Start VSCode on your local computer

3. In VSCode, install the VSCode 'Remote Tunnels' plugin

In VSCode, install the VSCode 'Remote Tunnels' plugin

In VSCode, installed the VSCode 'Remote Tunnels' plugin

4. In VSCode, connect to Bianca

In VSCode, at the 'Remote Explorer' tab, click on 'SSH', then on 'New Remote'.

In VSCode, connect to Bianca

This is the step that fails