ForceCode extension hangs at 'Forcecode loading...' message

Describe the bug The ‘ForceCode loading…’ message shows and does not progress.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: This happens in all projects, new and old, whether other extensions are installed or not, but this will give a bare-bones view:

1. Open new project in VSCode
2. Select command ‘ForceCode: Create Project’
3. Select the project’s folder
4. Observe that this is the project structure:

• force.json
• sfdx-project.json
• src/ {empty}

1. Nothing else happens, so restart VSCode
2. Select ‘New Org’
3. Select anything from the next dropdown (e.g. ‘Sandbox / Test’)
4. Select either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ (to ‘automatically deploy code…’)
5. Nothing else. ‘Forcecode loading…’

Expected behavior My colleague expects a browser window to open at ‘New Org’, and the ‘ForceCode loading…’ message to be replaced by a menu button.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. Windows] Windows 10 x64 (10.0.17763)
• VSCode version [e.g. 1.29.0] 1.33.1
• ForceCode Version [e.g. 3.10.3] 3.16.0

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

[rendall]

To help anyone reviewing this issue, here are the important bits for the workaround:

type netsh interface ip show excludedportrange protocol=tcp into your terminal which lists a series of port ranges. Find a port not in the list, and add it as the value to a oauthLocalPort field on the root level object of sfdx-project.json

But do see the referenced forcedotcom/salesforcedx-vscode#1296 to see how to use port 1717

[EdgarsEv]

@rendall Just FYI: I gave up killing port for 1717, and I red some other issue, that user did change default app browser to smth like MS Edge. Unbelievable, but it solved this issue: Cannot start the OAuth redirect server on port PortInUseAction. GoogleChrome didn’t start, but Edge did. Weird issue. Sorry for too many words. Kind regards