Hi all, I’m struggling to get VSCode to use Julia 1.7 on Windows 7. I’ve updated the system path to point to 1.7, but VSCode still uses 1.6 by default. If I change the julia.executablePath setting in VSCode to point to 1.7 (using double backslashes), VSCode gives the error: “Could not start the Ju…

Dear, I think you may encounter the same issue as mine. It could be solved. It is caused due to configuration of VS Code Julia Extension and the Workspace. There is a workspace configuration file settings.json in directory “current programming directory”\.vscode. This workspace configuration will …

Thanks, but this doesn’t appear to fix the problem. The local settings.json files don’t have anything in them and starting a new session in a new clean folder doesn’t work either. Change the scope to machine instead of machine overridable had no effect either.

I overlooked “using double backslashes” in your original post. Could you try just single backslash? As I make it work with single backslash instead of double ones. [Julia Path] Thanks & B.Rgds.

Single backslashes don’t work either. I can start Julia 1.7 by typing “julia” into the windows terminal inside VSCode, so I don’t think the problem is finding the executable. Maybe there’s some other problem preventing Julia starting correctly Thanks

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Difficulty switching to 1.7 in VSCode

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