Vscode-arduino: Unable to select serial port

[Dhdrummer]

Issue Type: Bug

After the update to 1.40.0 I tried to change serial port by clicking on it in status bar but nothing happens. Every other clickable method also does not work.

Extension version: 0.2.27
VS Code version: Code 1.40.0 (86405ea23e3937316009fc27c9361deee66ffbf5, 2019-11-06T17:02:13.381Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18362

[hellyzh]

Duplicate to #918

[dooriya]

Duplicated with #918 due to VSCode engine bumped to 1.40 with Electron 6.0 update.
We're currently working on a new release containing the fix to this issue, will update you once we release is go public.

[dooriya]

The serial port issue has been fixed in the latest Arduino extension release (0.2.28).
Please install the latest Arduino 0.2.28 from marketplace https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsciot-vscode.vscode-arduino to verify if this is resolved on your environment.

[josephpage]

I confirm that the issue with Serial Port is fixed with 0.2.28, on my side too.

[dooriya]

Thanks you all for the feedback,
Since this issue is resolved in the latest 0.2.28 release, I gonna to close it here.

[micahalan]

I am currently having this same issue with version 1.43.0

[simonl65]

As a workaround:

1. open the folder where your .ino file resides
2. open the .vscode folder
3. edit arduino.json
4. change the port
   e.g.

{
  "port":"COM4"
}