It worked very well, thank you!
To summarize:
Samba to share HA config folder on Raspberry Pi, visible to LAN
Created a mapped drive to the shared folder on the windows machine
Installed VS Code on windows machine
Installed the Home Assistant Config Helper via the VS Code Marketplace
File>Preferences>Extensions
Configure helper within VS Code by entering the URL of my HA and;
pasting a long lived access token generated from within HA.