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Thanks to a gracious CCS customer, a VS Code extension is now publicly available for the CCS C Command-line Compilers. It is an alpha-stage, non-official and non-affiliated VS Code extension, so use at your own risk. The extension is called PICC CCS Support and can be found in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Learn more or install from this page: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pgvt.picc-ccs-support
The CCS IDE comes with many more features including a debugger, but there is one notable feature that the VS Code extension offers - automatic intellisense. The CCS IDE comes with a code completion feature that is turned on by default. It automatically brings up code completion suggestions for things like elements of a structure after typing the decimal. However, for things like variables and functions, you must start typing the name and then use Ctrl + Space to bring up suggestions. The VS Code extension automatically brings up code completion suggestions for everything as you are typing.
If you are using Visual Studio Code, you may also want to install the MPLAB AI Coding Assistant extension from Microchip. This extension can give detailed answers to questions about a specific Microchip PIC® MCU device that you are programming.
If you are interested in having AI assist you with reading and writing CCS C code, there are at least a few AI models that partially understand code written for the CCS C compiler. These include ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude.
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