Connecting to wallet from the Remix IDE Desktop App for deploying contract

[geaney91]

Hi all. I checked through previous discussions but didn't see this particular issue raised so just posting the solution here for anyone else who got stuck.

When you're using Remix IDE desktop app, you will not have the MetaMask extension available unlike in the browser as shown by Patrick in the course. So that means 'Injected Web3' environment won't exist and 'Injected Provider' will throw an error.

To resolve this you need to use the 'Wallet Connect' environment instead. That will allow you to connect your metamask wallet (make sure you have the testnet selected in your metamask account) and you will be able to deploy your contract to this testnet.

I ran this process today and it worked perfectly.

Hope this helps someone.

[alfaqi]

Hello @geaney91
Thank you for sharing your experience.