Visual Studio Code Robot Developer Extensions for ROS 1

The Robot Developer Extensions (RDE) is a set of extensions for Visual Studio Code. This extension provides support for the Legacy Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 runtime, an open-source robotics middleware producted by Open Robotics and supports development on Windows and Linux.

NOTE: This extension is rebranded and re-released by Ranch Hand Robotics, owned by the maintainer of the ms-iot VSCode ROS Extension with permission from Microsoft.

Features

  • Automatic ROS environment configuration.
  • Allows starting, stopping and viewing the ROS core status.
  • Automatically create catkin_make or catkin build build tasks.
  • Create catkin packages using catkin_create_pkg script or catkin create pkg.
  • Run rosrun and roslaunch
  • Resolve dependencies with rosdep shortcut
  • Syntax highlighting for .msg, .urdf and other ROS files.
  • Automatically add the ROS C++ include and Python import paths.
  • Format C++ using the ROS clang-format style.
  • Preview URDF and Xacro files.
  • Debug a single ROS node (C++ or Python) by [attaching to the process][debug_support-attach].
  • Debug ROS nodes (C++ or Python) [launched from a .launch file][debug_support-launch].