# How to connect visual code and share folder

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/how-to-connect-visual-code-and-share-folder/94047>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Tags:** visual-code\
**Created:** [March 4, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/how-to-connect-visual-code-and-share-folder/94047 "2020-03-04T17:46:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Martin\_gigli](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/martin_gigli/32/37588_2.png) [@Martin\_gigli](https://community.openhab.org/u/Martin_gigli)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/how-to-connect-visual-code-and-share-folder/94047/1 "2020-03-04T17:46:07Z")

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Hi i have my openhab in my raspberry with openhabian and visual code in windows 10. I already have openHAB-conf as a network unit with drive letter V: and in visual code i configure openhab to connect to my server and i can see all the thins and item create with paperui. But in the openhab plugin iu can’t edit anything. When I double click any files i recibe message like no editor is active, also i can’t see any \*.item file that i create. On the other side i load as a workspace letter V: with all files form the server. But there isn’t any especial function activate.  
This is what I put in settings.jason:

> {  
> “openhab.host”: “192.168.3.142”,  
> “openhab.port”: 8080,  
> “openhab.sitemapPreviewUI”: “classicui”,  
> “workbench.iconTheme”: “openhab”,  
> “explorer.confirmDelete”: false  
> }

What I’m missing?

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**Author:** ![Charley](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/charley/32/52892_2.png) [@Charley](https://community.openhab.org/u/Charley)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 10:24am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/how-to-connect-visual-code-and-share-folder/94047/2 "2020-03-05T10:24:51Z")

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There is a great video instruction how to do this

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/F-kXg7hQC9E/maxresdefault.jpg "openHAB 2 Basics - Editing Configuration Files | Installing Visual Studio Code") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-kXg7hQC9E)

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**Author:** ![noppes123](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/noppes123/32/115976_2.png) [@noppes123](https://community.openhab.org/u/noppes123)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/how-to-connect-visual-code-and-share-folder/94047/3 "2020-03-05T11:24:51Z")

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> [@Martin\_gigli](#):
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> But in the openhab plugin iu can’t edit anything.

Not entirely sure what you mean, because the editing of the files is not facilitated by the OH plugin, but by having access to the files on the Pi from your W10 (via a share). Can you access the files from Windows Explorer and open them, for instance in Notepad?

> [@Martin\_gigli](#):
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> i recibe message like no editor is active,

What is the _exact_ message when you double-click a file in the file tree of VS Code?

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**Author:** ![Martin\_gigli](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/martin_gigli/32/37588_2.png) [@Martin\_gigli](https://community.openhab.org/u/Martin_gigli)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/how-to-connect-visual-code-and-share-folder/94047/4 "2020-03-18T10:05:04Z")

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The video really helps me. Thanks

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**Author:** ![Daniel101](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@Daniel101](https://community.openhab.org/u/Daniel101)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/how-to-connect-visual-code-and-share-folder/94047/5 "2020-12-03T21:46:54Z")

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Hi, I’ve upgrade to openHAB 3.0.0 Build #2041 and lost my connection to VC.

Windows 2010  
Java 11

I’ve not tried all the combination and still not working. Any help please.

{  
“openhab.host”: “192.168.1.200”  
}