arduino settings for Visual Studio Code - visual-studio-code

Question

This is driving me crazy! I see solutions all over the web and I still can't get this to work. Here is my settings.json file:
{
"C_Cpp.updateChannel": "Insiders",
"workbench.editorAssociations": {
"*.ipynb": "jupyter.notebook.ipynb"
},
"arduino.additionalUrls": "",
"arduino.path": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Arduino",
"arduino.commandPath": "arduino.exe",
"files.autoSave": "onWindowChange",
}
I am running on Windows 10 and Arduino is installed in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino
I have four executables there:
arduino.exe
arduino_debug.exe (I downloaded this for good measure!)
arduino-cli.exe
uninstall.exe
When I click "Select Programmer" in VSC, I get"
"Cannot find Arduino IDE. Please specify the "arduino.path" in the User Settings. Requires a restart after change.
I have restarted the IDE and still get the same problem.
I have rebooted the laptop.
I have tried uninstalling both VSC and Arduino.
The Arduino IDE works fine stand-alone.

Answer 1

Wow! I finally stumbled on these installation instructions:
https://nortronics.com.au/setting-up-visual-studio-code-for-arduino-programming/
This is what my .vscode/settings.json (you can find it in the left pane under .vscode in your project folder) now looks like:
{
"arduino.path": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Arduino",
"C_Cpp.intelliSenseEngineFallback": "Disabled",
"C_Cpp.intelliSenseEngine": "Tag Parser",
"arduino.enableUSBDetection": true,
}