If you click on "Explorer" it wants to open a folder. But I don't see any way to tell it the folder is somewhere else to connect via FTP.

You can do remote development via vscode, but it works over ssh. I'm not at my desk right now, but i can get some docs about it tomorrow.

That would be cool, thanks.

So you get the "Remote Development" extension pack, which installs several other extensions to cover al the supported use-cases -- connecting to a container, connecting to WSL, connecting to a server over SSH, or connecting to a server through a tunnel. Once you've installed those, then you can open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P), and type in Remote-SSH: Connnect to Host. click on "+ Add New SSH Host..." and type in the ssh command to connect. It'll prompt you to save this connection to a config file, and then a notification box will pop up at the bottom of the window with a Connect button. Select the platform, confirm the fingerprint, put in your password., and then from there, it's like regular vscode. You have the option to install the extensions you have locally to the remove machine so they work there too. And then you can ppen a folder, or create a workspace (a folder or a collection of folders), and then start coding.

Thank you! I'll try this.