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Known issue - Notebook failure inside Visual Studio Code for the Web

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You can install the Synapse extension inside Visual Studio Code for the Web (also known as vscode.dev). Due to a recent change from the Jupyter extension, you can't open or run a Fabric notebook inside Visual Studio Code for the Web.

Status: Open

Product Experience: Data Engineering

Symptoms

When you run code in a notebook, you receive an error. The error message is similar to: Failed to start the Kernel 'Synapse PySpark', Kernel is dead'.

Solutions and workarounds

To work around this issue, install the Jupyter extension with a version before 2024.9.1.

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