Overview
The Visual Studio Code NSP connect extension allows developers to maintain a list of their active NSP setups and to seamlessly switch between them. It works on top of the other three available extensions (Intents, Workflows, Artifacts) and automatically updates the connection details and credentials for those extensions already installed and active on your vsCode.
As extensions settings were moved under “workspace”, this allows to have multiple vsCode windows (workspaces) open with different active NSP setups on each of them.
The purpose of the extension is to facilitate the tracking of NSP setups and the switching between them, avoiding to go inside each individual extension settings.
Installation
VS Code runs on most available hardware and platform versions. You can review the requirements to check if your computer configuration is supported.
Download VS Code for your platform and install it on your local machine following the guides for Linux, macOS, Windows.
To install the visual studio code extension, two options are available:
- Install directly from vsCode Marketplace (preferred option)
- Go to left panel Extensions menu, search for NSP connect, then install
Setttings
When NSP connect is installed, in the “Explorer” section you should see a new “NSP setups” section.
Steps to add a new setup:
- Click on the plus button (+)
- Provide a meaningful name to the setup you are adding (e.g. my_24_8_lab)
- Provide the IP address
- If you are in a new NSP setup (23.11+) then select “Yes” to standard port (443). Otherwise, select “No”.
With this, the new setup should appear on your list. You can now try to connect to your setup by doing “righ-click” à “Connect to NSP”.
The first time you connect, the extension will detect that there is no credentials stored for it, requesting the user to provide those details (username and password). Once entered, if not successful or in case the user wants to update the credentials, you can click the “settings” icon in the setup.
In case you want to delete one setup, click on the delete icon.
NSP connect does not track changes done in the extension settings, which means you can still change the connection settings directly and independently on each extension settings.