I used to be able to open any web site's code by clicking a folder and then "Open folder in VS Code". Now VS Code refuses to even show an old site's code because I don't have .NET Framework installed. I don't want to run it, I just want to see the code for comparison. Was never a problem till the last few weeks. I guess I'll have to find a different text reader then (that's all I use VS Code for anyway tbh).

Maybe it is an extension you have installed

It must be some upgrade because IIRC it worked ok in December, but not in January. They don't have the best rep for upgrades now do they ? 😉

The right-click integration is a part of VS code, but it depends if you installed for your own user, or under the system when you first installed code. i've had this go wrong before. The dev kid also complains if you don't have framework installed, and tried to do random crap like create a sln file if there isn't one but that can be configured out I believe

That could be it, I'm on Linux so I can't have Framework installed. But I seem to think that I used to be able to just see the code and it was highlighted. Anyway, I'll just use something else instead. I'm not developing it of course, I just want to see what some of the old code was as I redevelop it on Core.