Vscode-arduino: Cant select Serial Port

[gaunh0]

Issue Type: Bug

In version 1.49.0, i cant not able to select serial port

Extension version: 0.3.2
VS Code version: Code 1.49.0 (e790b931385d72cf5669fcefc51cdf65990efa5d, 2020-09-10T13:22:08.892Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19041

System Info

|Item|Value|
|---|---|
|CPUs|Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v5 @ 3.40GHz (8 x 3408)|
|GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
flash_3d: enabled
flash_stage3d: enabled
flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
oop_rasterization: disabled_off
opengl: enabled_on
protected_video_decode: unavailable_off
rasterization: enabled
skia_renderer: disabled_off_ok
video_decode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled|
|Load (avg)|undefined|
|Memory (System)|15.95GB (9.09GB free)|
|Process Argv|. --crash-reporter-id 2f0618bb-7cd7-4f6f-959c-ab1eb4c18e74|
|Screen Reader|no|
|VM|0%|

[maxulm]

1099 Duplicate

[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"
}

[simonl65]

Related issues: #922 #1104 #1101 #1099

[fidelbrea]

Downgrade. This is a solution. I fixed it by downgrading up to 1.48.2.
I hope you find this useful to fix your own situations.

[robotdad]

Prerelease build for the serial port issue is here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-arduino/releases/tag/v0.3.3-rc

I plan to publish a release with this fix tomorrow, Oct 30.

[robotdad]

Resolved in release 0.3.3