Visual Studio Code “Open With Code” does not appear after right-clicking a folder

Question

Just installed Visual Studio Code 1.1.1 on a Windows 7 machine. When I right-click on a folder, \"Open With Code\" does not appear.

Answer 1

NB: This is for the 32-bit version, for the 64-bit version see Cepharum's answer.

Slight change to the previous answer to allow non Admins to get the functionality in their context menus:

• Create file vsCodeOpenFolder.reg with this content (If you didn't chose the default installation path then you need to adjust the paths in this file):

  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  ; Open files
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\*\shell\Open with VS Code]
  @="Edit with VS Code"
  "Icon"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft VS Code\\Code.exe,0"
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\*\shell\Open with VS Code\command]
  @="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft VS Code\\Code.exe\" \"%1\""
  ; This will make it appear when you right click ON a folder
  ; The "Icon" line can be removed if you don't want the icon to appear
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shell\vscode]
  @="Open Folder as VS Code Project"
  "Icon"="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft VS Code\\Code.exe\",0"
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\shell\vscode\command]
  @="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft VS Code\\Code.exe\" \"%1\""
  ; This will make it appear when you right click INSIDE a folder
  ; The "Icon" line can be removed if you don't want the icon to appear
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shell\vscode]
  @="Open Folder as VS Code Project"
  "Icon"="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft VS Code\\Code.exe\",0
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Directory\Background\shell\vscode\command]
  @="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft VS Code\\Code.exe\" \"%V\""
  

• Double click it to create the registry entries

• If the "Open with Code" doesn't appear in the Explorer's context menu then you should restart your system.

Essentially I have replaced HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT with HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes