Extension not detecting toolchain

[DanielLMcGuire]

I try to use the extension on any installation of Visual Studio I have, and I am faced with:

Prerequisite check(s) failed:
- rustup.exe not installed
- cargo.exe component is not found in any active toolchain.

Pressing OK will open prerequsites install instructions and restart the IDE.

(OK is the only button might I add, closing the window seems to do the same thing.)

The sane thing to do is not to limit the user from using the IDE at all, like if I was just starting out, this would make me just uninstall Visual Studio and give up. Add a configuration option somewhere. Better yet, add a button to not restart the whole IDE.

Rust is in my PATH, and is at the default location of C:/Users/USERNAME/.cargo/bin/

> where cargo
C:\Users\danielmcguire\.cargo\bin\cargo.exe
> where rustup
C:\Users\danielmcguire\.cargo\bin\rustup.exe

The extension has no way to configure it externally as far as I can tell, I cannot tell if it does inside the IDE or not as the initial message doesn't allow the IDE to work at all, nor can I uninstall the extension outside of safe mode, which most Visual Studio users are unaware of.

I tried installing onto a VM to no luck, and a clean install of windows on a separate PC only to see the same issue in both Visual Studio 2022 and 2026.