Cannot find runtime 'node' on PATH - Visual Studio Code and Node.js

Question

With a downloaded and installed version of Visual Studio Code 1.2.1, and a 64bit version of node.exe msi placed in my working directory (I am assuming that is correct), how

Answer 1

On OSX and VSCode 1.50.0 all I had to do was to close and restart VSCode and the problem went away.