<aside> 💡 Setup time less than 5 minutes

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Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.

It is commonly referred to as VS Code and is a source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Q Blocks instances can be easily accessed through VSCode to support coding and development setup for your teams.

Pre-requisites:

• Enable TCP Forwarding in Q Blocks instance sshd_config
• Set Host Information in local system’s SSH config

1. Enable TCP Forwarding in Q Blocks instance sshd_config:

Visual Studio Code needs TCP Forwarding to work properly.

TCP forwarding is by default disabled in Q Blocks instance sshd configuration file for security reasons.

To change this setting, run the following commands as qblocks user in your Q Blocks instance:

sudo sed -i 's/AllowTcpForwarding no/AllowTcpForwarding yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
sudo systemctl restart sshd

This will Allow TCP forwarding and then restart the SSH Daemon.