Template is recognized and reports no problems until Select ParameterFile.

[Falconwmua]

Does this occur consistently? Yes
Repro steps:

1. Open template file
2. Wait for VSCode to recognize it as a Azure Resource Manager Template

• ARM Template Outline populates, file type and icon change

3. Go to Parameters section of template, right click to "Select/Create Parameter File..."
4. VSCode returns notification or error below instead of prompting for parameter file.

Action: azurerm-vscode-tools.selectParameterFile
Error type: Error
Error Message: "c:\repos\allspice\aspice-armt-partner-env-platformfabric\PlatformFabric.json" does not appear to be an Azure Resource Manager deployment template file.

Version: 0.10.0
OS: win32
OS Release: 10.0.18363
Product: Visual Studio Code
Product Version: 1.46.0
Language: en

Call Stack

Object.<anonymous> extension.bundle.js:1:596601
fulfilled extension.bundle.js:1:593686

[StephenWeatherford]

@Falconwmua Thanks for taking the time to report this issue! Could you check to see if your template file is saved as UTF-8 with BOM? And if so, consider resaving without the BOM (F1 -> Change File Encoding)? There was a known issue with that which will be fixed in the next release (see #721).

If you need it saved with the BOM, I believe you can change it back after setting up the parameter file association.

[Falconwmua]

That fixed it. I thought I searched but guess not well enough. Was there a related issue with some of the other tooling (CLI/PowerShell) with regards to the UTF-8 with BOM? An engineer brought this up a while back but we couldn't reproduce it and he had upgraded and changed all the files that had the problem.

[StephenWeatherford]

I just deployed one with no problems.