Account and Licensing
BimlExpress for Visual Studio Code comes with account setup and product key management. The BimlExpress Account view in the BimlExpress container of the activity bar shows your account. The Command Palette and the editor title bar of a Biml file also carry a BimlExpress Account command. BimlExpress Account explains why a free product asks for an account.
Signing In
The Sign In and Sign In With Code commands start a signed-in session. The Sign Out command ends it.
Product Keys
- Enter Product Key enters your product key.
- Request BimlExpress Product Key requests a product key.
- BimlExpress: Show Product Key shows your product key.
When your session is not licensed, BimlExpress shows one activation prompt with options to enter or request a product key.
Machine Code
The Get Machine Code command gets the machine code of your computer.
Pro Emission
Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Fabric output needs the Pro emission entitlement on your license. Until your license carries it, a signed-in session emits nothing for those targets, and the Pro status row of the BimlExpress Account view reads off. Build and Validate describes what a build says in that case.
The Open Checkout command opens the Varigence pricing page. Commercial: Pricing Url (bimlexpress.commercial.pricingUrl) sets the page it opens, https://varigence.com/pricing by default. The address opens as configured when its host is varigence.com or www.varigence.com, with nothing appended. Any other address opens the default pricing page.
Telemetry
Telemetry: Enabled (bimlexpress.telemetry.enabled) lets BimlExpress send anonymous usage counts that carry no key, path or model name. It is on (true) by default. Unchecking it stops every send. The Visual Studio Code telemetry setting applies as well.
Telemetry: Endpoint (bimlexpress.telemetry.endpoint) is the https address that receives the usage counts. It is empty ("") by default, and an empty value sends nothing.