Install the extension

The extension is published on the Visual Studio Marketplace by Ashling as RiscFree™ for Embedded Software Development.

Item	Value
Extension ID	Ashling.riscfree
Publisher	Ashling
Requires	Visual Studio Code 1.82 or later (download)

Install from the Marketplace

1. Open VS Code.
2. Open the Extensions view: select the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar, or press Ctrl+Shift+X.
3. Search for RiscFree.
4. Select RiscFree™ for Embedded Software Development (publisher Ashling), then select Install.

When the install finishes, the Ashling icon () appears in the Activity Bar, and the extension's page shows Disable and Uninstall in place of Install.

The extension's page after installing.

1. The extension name ① is RiscFree™ for Embedded Software Development, published by Ashling.
2. The Installation panel shows the identifier ashling.riscfree and the installed version ②. Extension identifiers aren't case-sensitive, so ashling.riscfree and Ashling.riscfree are the same.

Install from the command line

Run this in a terminal. The code command must be on your PATH; the VS Code installer adds it by default on Windows.

code --install-extension Ashling.riscfree

Update or uninstall

VS Code updates the extension automatically. To update by hand, open the Extensions view, select the extension, and select Update.

To uninstall, select Uninstall on the extension's page. Installed SDKs are not removed. To free the disk space, remove them in the SDK Manager before you uninstall. The extension's own data (the SDK list and each project's SDK selection) stays in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Ashling\vcpkg on Windows or ~/.ashling/vcpkg on Linux; delete that folder for a clean uninstall.

Don't delete the whole SDK root folder

The SDK Manager installs SDKs with vcpkg, Microsoft's open-source package manager. That is why the default SDK root folder is .vcpkg in your home folder, and it can also hold files of other vcpkg-based tools. Remove Ashling SDKs in the SDK Manager instead. Downloaded SDK archives are kept in the downloads folder inside the SDK root folder; you can delete that folder to free more space.