How do I see a bin file in a hex editor in Visual Studio Code?

Question

I have a bin file holding all my instruction cache and data cache for my Verilog project, and I want to see it as the Notepad++ hex editor shows its meaning, hex representation view. Is there a way to configure this?

Or maybe an extension that provides this functionality?

Answer 1

1. Install this extension: Hexdump for VSCode. It can display a specified file in hexadecimal.

2. Open the file/image/whatever you want to display in hex mode in Visual Studio Code, then press Ctrl + Shift + Alt + H.

3. Or press Ctrl + P then input Show hexdump from path to open a file in hex mode directly.

Answer 2

1. Install Hex Editor
2. Then open the file you want to edit in VS Code
3. It will say you cannot open the file in here (if it's binary file), Select Open Anyway
4. Select Hex Editor from the Command Panel
5. You should see something similar to this:

Answer 3

Hexdump has been deprecated. The alternative right now is Hex Editor by Microsoft.

Hex Editor OR ext install ms-vscode.hexeditor

Answer 4

VSCode 1.46 (May 2020) will have its own native Hex Editor extension:

Hex Editor

With the custom editor API finalized with support for binary editors, we have developed a hex editor extension to provide a native hex editing experience.