I am a new programmer that started learning Python, but there's something bothering me which I'd like to change.
As I've seen that it is possible to remove the unwanted path from the terminal when executing code, I cannot figure out how to access the Visual Studio Code launch.json file and all of the explanations on Google are quite confusing.
Note that if Visual Studio Code hasn't created a launch.json file for your project yet, do the following:
Click the Run | Add Configuration menu option, and one will automatically be generated for you, and opened in the editor.
NOTE: You have to have a "Folder" open, for this to work. File | Open Folder...
In Visual Studio Code, use shortcut Ctrl + Shift + P to open the Command Palette and type Open launch.json. And it will open the launch.json file for you. If you also can't open launch.json then try the way below.
Check if the .vscode folder exists in the root folder. If not, then create a new one and create file launch.json in that. Now you have launch.json for your workspace and you can configure your project.
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If I launch Visual Studio Code directly it remembers all the files I had open previously. The issue I have is if I (under Win10) right click a file and select "Open With Code". If VS Code is already open everything is file. If VS Code is not open, it will launch and open the file, but forget all the files I had previously opened.
This seems like unexpected (and non-consistent) behavior. Is there a way to get VS Code to launch from "Open With Code" but have it also open all the files I had opened previously? Basically, act the same as if VS Code was already opened when I clicked on "Open With Code".
Add the following line to your setting.json (Code Menu > Preferences > Setting)
"window.restoreWindows": preserve
This issue seems to cover exactly your case and has been resolved here
The launch.json file should be inside the .vscode folder, but it is not present there.
How can I get this file so that I can modify the configurations?
As described in the Launch Configurations section of the Visual Studio Code documentation:
VS Code keeps debugging configuration information in a launch.json
file located in a .vscode folder in your workspace (project root
folder) or in your user settings or workspace settings.
To create a launch.json file, click the create a launch.json file link
in the Run start view.
As of Visual Studio Code 1.56:
Once that's created, it should now be available under your workspace's .vscode folder.
Click on the debug side bar to open the debugging options. Then either the cog icon at the top, or the create a launch.json file link below the big blue button. If the launch.json file is present, it will open it otherwise it will generate one.
Warning: if you try to create an empty one (or one with an invalid content), trying to get to that file through the "Create a launch.json file" would not do anything.
See issue 133327.
That will be fixed with VSCode 1.61 (Sept. 2021): at least, that existing file will be opened when you click on "Create a launch.json file".
Can we add existing file or folder to VS code solution from explorer itself ?
One way is to add from file explorer but can this be done from VS code explorer itself like other Visual studio IDE solution explorer ?
We can't add it like Visual Studio IDE as how you will always have a link to it.
However, you can "Open" a file temporarily via Cntrl+O or can open a new Window with that other folder opened.
On Linux, the existing file can be inserted by copying to system's clipboard then paste from VSC.
To copy to system's clipboard:
xclip <filename>
Then paste to VSC as usual using Ctrl-V.
I have created a new custom theme using the Yoeman theme generated and now when I pressed on F5 to open a new Host Extension window of the custom theme it is actually showing me to select environment?
I have managed to open a new Extension development window by the following step which is not the ideal way to do it but helped me to run it.
I have selected the chrome (preview) option which will create a .vscode folder in your workspace and will have one file launch.json.
In your project directory, you will also have a .vscode folder and launch.json file inside it. So, I have copied the content of launch.json and pasted it in the workspace launch.json file.
I don't know the reason how it is get solved with that but happily, I managed to open the new Extension Development Host window.
The reason for not showing up the Extension Development Host window by pressing F5 in the first place is because my VS code workspace is not inside the project directory. The project directory contains the setup for launching the Extension Development Host window in launch.json. So, If I want to suggest then I would say that VS code workspace needs to be inside the project folder directory.
You must open the project root directory not the directory that wraps project root.
In my case, test1 was the root directory.
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I have an issue with Visual Studio code: before abandoning it I would like to know if there is another way.
Basically I have a folder:
D:\work\project1
Inside project1 I have a visual studio code workspace file:
D:\work\project1\project1.code-workspace
The problem is: if I try to open a file inside D:\work\project1 the editor opens without opening the workspace... Each time I open a file I have to reopen the workspace.
Do I have anyway to open by default the workspace when I edit files inside that folder ?