The purpose of the extension is to help users develop, deploy and debug applications on TorizonCore, using Visual Studio Code as the IDE. The following programming languages are currently supported:
This article will help you set up the recommended configuration.
Note: Make sure that the board and development computers are on the same network.
Here you will install:
The latest version of the Toradex Torizon Support extension can be found on the Visual Studio Code marketplace:
Toradex Torizon Support - Visual Studio Code Marketplace
Click on the extensions button in Visual Studio Code as shown in the image below and search for Toradex Torizon Support:
Toradex Torizon Support Extension for Visual Studio Code
Verify that the extension has been enabled:
Torizon extension
Choose your development PC OS from the tabs below:
Warning: Required for .NET Core applications only
Download the latest .NET Core SDK on Microsoft Official Website and follow the setup installation. In order to check if everything went well, open up a command prompt and run the following command
$ dotnet
If the installation was successful, you should see the .NET options on the command prompt
In order to obtain the Linux subsystem, please refer to the Microsoft instructions. After all the steps were followed, reboot your machine and go through the steps below.
Open the Microsoft Store and install a distro, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is recommended. When the process ends, open CMD and run the following command:
$ wsl
It will ask for your username and password, write it, and run the command again to see the following output:
Wsl output
After evaluating the Windows Subsystem for Linux really works, install rsync and ssh from the Linux prompt:
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install rsync ssh
Warning: Required for .NET Core applications only
Follow the .NET Microsoft Documentation in order to install it on Linux, and make sure you select the correct distribution on the left.
You cant test if everything went well by running the following command
$ dotnet --info
The VS Code extension needs ARM emulation mode enabled through binfmt. To enable it press F1 and then type "Torizon: Enable ARM emulation for Docker containers":
Torizon Enable ARM Emulation
Click on continue in the following window:
Continue arm emulation
If everything goes well, you should see the ARM emulation enabled message in your Visual Studio Code.
To debug and test our application we need a device to deploy it. Open Visual Studio Code and press F1 to open the command bar, then you can run one of two commands below to add a device connected over the network or over serial.
Adding a Torizon device
The command torizon.detectSerialDevice will add a serial connection to a Torizon device, you will be prompted to specify which port on your development PC the device is connected to over serial.
The command torizon.detectNetworkDevice will add a network connection to your Torizon device, you will be prompted to specify the IP address of your Torizon device. Just make sure that your device is on the same network as your development PC and can actually be reached.
Either way, you will then be prompted to enter a valid username and password that is on your Torizon device, this will make it briefly reboot. You should see some dialog in the Terminal output of the VS code that shows whether the connection was a success or not. Also if you’ve already created a Torizon Project then the device will be listed via the Torizon extension sidebar menu.
Expected Result:
Adding a device - expected result
On Visual Studio Code, executing command is easy: you just need to press F1 to open the command bar then type the command you want. Here is a list with every command and its respective action and category
| Command | Action | Category |
|---|---|---|
| torizon.createPythonApp | Create Python Application | Torizon/Python |
| torizon.createDotNetCoreApp | Create .NET Core Application | Torizon/.NET |
| torizon.createAspDotNetCoreApp | Create ASP.NET Application | Torizon/.NET |
| torizon.detectSerialDevice | Detect device via serial port connection | Torizon |
| torizon.detectNetworkDevice | Detect device via network connection | Torizon |
| torizon.deleteDevice | Remove device from device list | Torizon |
| torizon.selectDevice | Select default deployment device | Torizon |
| torizon.buildPythonReleaseContainer | Build release container for Python application | Torizon/Python |
| torizon.enableARMEmulation | Enable ARM emulation for docker containers | Torizon |
| torizon.deployReleaseContainer | Deploy release container | Torizon |
| torizon.runReleaseContainer | Run/restart release container | Torizon |
| torizon.updateContainers | Download/update base containers | Torizon |
| torizon.buildDotNetReleaseContainer | Build release container for .NET application | Torizon/.NET |
config.yaml in the appconfig_0 folder. See Moses IDE Backend for reference.
