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▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄   Bicep Cost Estimator
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄   Estimate Azure costs directly from Bicep and ARM templates.
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▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄   title : VS Code Extension
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄   page  : https://bicepcostestimator.net/vscode-extension
▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄   repo  : https://github.com/polatengin/washington
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The Bicep Cost Estimator VS Code extension shows real-time Azure cost estimates directly in your editor as you write infrastructure-as-code. It resolves costs by invoking the  bce  CLI in LSP mode.

Installation
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Install from the Visual Studio Marketplace https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EnginPolat.bce, or from the command line:

┌─ bash example ─────────────────────────────────────┐
│code --install-extension enginpolat.bce             │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Features
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• CodeLens annotations - see estimated monthly costs above each resource
• Hover details - hover over a resource to see a detailed cost breakdown
• Status bar totals - view the current file's estimated monthly cost at a glance
• Cost breakdown panel - inspect per-resource totals in the explorer view
• Automatic refresh - when  bce.estimateOnSave  is enabled, estimates are refreshed when a  .bicep  file is opened, saved, or changed

Configuration
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Open VS Code settings and search for  bce :

•  bce.defaultRegion 
  Description: Default Azure region when not specified in a resource
  Default:  eastus 

•  bce.cliPath 
  Description: Path to the  bce  CLI binary; auto-detected if empty
  Default:  "" 

•  bce.estimateOnSave 
  Description: Automatically refresh estimates for open  .bicep  files
  Default:  true 

•  bce.showCodeLens 
  Description: Show cost annotations as CodeLens above resources
  Default:  true 

•  bce.showStatusBar 
  Description: Show total estimated cost in the status bar
  Default:  true 

•  bce.cacheTtlHours 
  Description: Pricing cache time-to-live in hours
  Default:  24 

If  bce.cliPath  is empty, the extension first tries the bundled  bce  binary, then a workspace build, then  bce  on your  PATH .

For a full settings reference, see Extension Settings https://bicepcostestimator.net/vscode-extension/settings.

Current Behavior and Limitations
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• The extension shells out to  bce lsp ; it does not implement pricing logic in TypeScript.
• Workspace estimation scans all  .bicep  files recursively under the current workspace root.
•  bce.defaultRegion ,  bce.estimateOnSave ,  bce.showCodeLens ,  bce.showStatusBar , and  bce.cacheTtlHours  are applied by the language server on startup.
• If a matching  .bicepparam  file in the same directory targets the active  .bicep  file, the extension applies its parameter values automatically during estimation.