Dear Community,

The ESP8266 core for Arduino or ESP32 core for Ardiuno needs to be installed on your computer. For the ESP8266, it is best to use the Arduino IDE 's Board Manager (Tools/Board/Board Manager.) or use the Arduino for Visual Studio Code 's Arduino: Board Manager command.

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the Visual Studio Code - i want to get it to work with the ESP8266
which extensions do i need to add?

Arduino Visual Code

The whole design of Visual Studio Code is so that it should be easily be configured for any development language using these extensions. Do i need to install the Arduino IDE? if i am able to go roound the Arduino IDE - i would be happy.

Visual Studio Code Arduino Esp8266

Like most of the IDE's I have tried, they rely on the Arduino IDE for all the libraries. - but if i am able to work with VS-Stidio-Code and ESP 8266 directly i would be happy.
how to set it up and to make sure that i have fully configured Visual Studio Code to work with all the necessary add-on for ESP8266
which extensions i should add and install?
note: i am on Windows 7