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Advocate V

2 years ago

Databricks ConnectV2 for Microsoft Fabric?

Databricks ConnectV2 lets you use Visual Studio Code as an IDE to debug Databricks notebooks: Debug your code and notebooks by using Visual Studio Code | Databricks Blog Does Microsoft Fabric or ...

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Advocate V

2 years ago

I just noticed in Fabric that there is an "Open in VS Code" button for my notebook. Not sure why I didn't notice it before. When I click that button, my notebook opens in VSCode as a *.ipynb file. I can then step through my program until I get to this line

mssparkutils.fs.ls("./Files")

at which point I get the error:
"NameError: name 'mssparkutils' is not defined"

Anonymous
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2 years ago
Hi Shawn_Eary ,

Thanks for using Fabric Community. Apologies for the delay in reply from our side.

You can refer to this documentation : link
Please install Synapse VS code in Visual Studio and download the necessary software.
Hope this helps. Do let us know if you have any further queries.
- Anonymous
  Not applicable
  2 years ago
  Hi Shawn_Eary ,
  Following up to check whether your issue has been resolved. Please let us know if you have any further queries.
  - Shawn_Eary
    Advocate V
    2 years ago
    The extension was and still is installed, but now I'm getting a different error and I'm not sure why. Now this line:
    
    spark.read.format("csv").option("header", "true").load(f)
    
    spits out the error:
    NameError: name 'spark' is not defined
    
    When I started up the debugger, I was given an option to choose between the Python Environments and Existing Jupyter Server:
    I chose Environments -> Python 3.11.6:
    Because I didn't know of a Jupyter Server URL that MS Fabric provides.
    
    Is there some way for me to get access to a Spark context and the files in my MS Fabric instance instead of apparently running my Python Notebook locally?
    
    My understanding is that Databricks already has the functionality I'm looking for.