Error message "command 'cake.intellisense' not found"

[JorisMolnar]

Today I received an update to the Cake extension for Visual Studio Code.

After this update, when I run any of the Cake commands in VS Code, I get the following error message (dependent on the command):

command 'cake.commandname' not found

If I open the Developer Tools of VS Code I can see the following errors in the console log:

VisualStudioCodeDevToolsCakeError.log

I've confirmed with a colleague that it was working before the new version of the cake extension got installed.

[pascalberger]

This is a known issue with the packaging of the latest version of the extension and we're currently working on a fix.

In the meantime you can try the following:

• Close Visual Studio Code
• Open Command Prompt
• Navigate to C:/Users//.vscode/extensions
• Navigate to the Cake extension folder for version 0.11.1
• Run npm install
• Re-open Visual Studio Code

[gep13]

@JorisMolnar on a side note...

Where did you find that Developer Tools for VS Code window? I was hunting for that this morning, but I couldn't find it 😄

[JorisMolnar]

@gep13 Right here 😊

[gep13]

Doh! I looked through every other menu, apart from this one!!

Thank you very much!

[gep13]

@JorisMolnar thank you very much for taking the time to post this issue. Your original screenshot directed me to exactly the cause of the problem. I have just pushed out a new version of the extension, 0.11.2, which should correct the problem. Please let us know if you continue to see issues.

[Lakkanna]

check .vscodeignore make sure that it's not containing node_modules, if exists remove node_modules from .vscodeignore

[ronilaukkarinen]

@Lakkanna You are a lifesaver! I literally bashed my head to the wall 4 hours with this... published my first vscode plugin and kinda new to it, after hours of googling I finally found your answer. I don't know what node_modules was to do in .vscodeignore but I'm glad I finally got this solved. So thank you so much!