If there are any other cool little tips you have with VS Code, I’d love to hear them in the comments. This might be common sense to some people, apologies if so! But it has just massively improved my VS code experience so thought sharing seemed warranted. Jump back over to the launch.json file, and simply update the preLaunchTask property to match the one you have just created in the tasks.json file. A tasks.json file contains a number of JSON blobs which define your tasks. Once copied, then update the path to be to the correct csproj. To create a task, you open up the command pallette and pick 'Tasks: Configure Task' and youll be prompted with some default template tasks, or the option to 'Create tasks.json file from template' which gives you total control and is the option I use. I tend to go for something useful like ‘build- ’. Simply make a copy of the ‘build’ task, and give it a different name. But it appears the file doesn’t support path matching :(. Terminal actually runs the full TTY so it can run the commands in.
For example, if do something that make color, it will not work on the 'Output' panel, which I noticed with the Python test runner for Py.Test. Initially, I tried using wildcards in the file path to try and force a build of all project files. My assumption for why this is that way is because 'Output' is essentially tailing log files and 'Terminal' is an actually TTY terminal. Normally, this will be the first project you debugged. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Looking at the build task (the one which both debug configs are using) you should quite quickly see there is a path to a specific. There will be a section for build, publish and watch. On further inspection, this file is pretty standard. Now where have we just seen something relating to tasks. You’ll notice, the pre-launch task is the same for both debug configuration. The incredibly important part of this file is the pre-launch task. There should now be two JSON objects in here, with a slightly different program and cwd properties. Launch.json contains the debug configuration we have already seen towards the start of the article. vscode file created within the root folder you opened. Yesterday, I took a stand and decided to figure out what was happening.Īny folder structure that has been opened with VS Code, has a. I would manually run dotnet build on my second project before launching the debugger and that was fine.įrustrating when I forgot to re-build, but adequate. Interestingly, my first project is rebuilt before the debugger then attaches to my new project.įor a long time, I just dealt with this. I make some changes to the code for the new application and then run the debugger.
I create the new project as normal and add a new debug config. Maybe I have a Web API for handling requests and a worker service that handles some arbritary background tasks. Happy days.īut now I need to add a second application to the repo. I can now run my debugger and step through the code.
(Note that filePattern only applies to statusbar items that have not been otherwise effectively set as hidden through tasks.json or settings.json).It’s that easy. Also, if it is provided but is invalid or causes an error during validation, the statusbar item will not be displayed. If the filePattern attribute is not provided, the statusbar item will not be hidden based on the active file. You can enable statusbar items based on the file in the active editor using the filePattern attribute, causing the statusbar item to be hidden when the active file does not match the specified pattern. You can set the tooltip of the statusbar: "label": "Test", You can set the foreground color of the statusbar: "label": "Test", More details in icons-in-labels and octicons "label": "Test", You can embed icons in the text by leveraging the syntax: $(icon-name). You can set the label of the statusbar: "label": "Test",
You can hide some tasks with the following options directly in tasks.json: "label": "Test", This extension loads VSCode tasks into status bar.