solved: Visual Studio Pico extension release "today" fails to blink the right led for a pico2_w

Raspberry pushed a new version of the Pico extension for Visual Studio.

This one doesn't seem to deal correctly with the board selection in the extension:

I deleted the build directory. Cleaned CMake. Configured CMake, Compiled. And it still thinks it's a non -w pico2 board with a LED on pin 25.

Anyone else tried it with a pico_w or a pico2_w?

edit 27-jul-2025

Solved. It was an error in my project's makefile. I had commented the board selection - expecting that the extension would manage it.
That caused that the extension couldn't switch the board. Removing the comment character fixed the situation:

BigG 2 months ago

I started by creating a new project from example for Pico 2 W (selected Blink) and compiled then flashed. Then I switched to Pico W, using the Switch Board option, and this worked too.

Using same version as above.
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BigG 2 months ago in reply to BigG

for Pico 2 W were you using risc-v?
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Jan Cumps 2 months ago in reply to BigG

Yes.

I started an issue on the extension github repo. Got first reactions back.

My report is for an existing extension project: https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-vscode/issues/196#issuecomment-3120477590
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BigG 2 months ago in reply to Jan Cumps

Interesting. I just repeated test but this time I selected the RISC-V architecture when switching from Pico W to Pico 2 W and it still worked for me.

When selecting RISC-V for Pico 2 W, I had to wait a bit while it downloaded the toolchain.
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Jan Cumps 2 months ago in reply to BigG

BigG , do you happen to have an existing project where you could test this? One that's created by the previous version of the extension?
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BigG 2 months ago in reply to Jan Cumps

Unfortunately no. I had emptied my Rubbish Bin.
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Jan Cumps 2 months ago

Solved. It was an error in my project's makefile. I had commented the board selection - expecting that the extension would manage it.
That caused that the extension couldn't switch the board. Removing the comment character fixed the situation.

I closed the github issue with a comment and results.
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