whenever i try to open my vs code editor, nothing happens it doesn't launch and even there are no errors..!! And i am confused what's wrong here in my vs code. Please anyone help me fix it..!! Belo...

I'd like to provide a list of strings as a pickString for a task. The list of strings will be a list of folder names, which I can get from PowerShell, but I'm not sure how to display this list in a...

it's been a long time that i run vscode as root via this command (ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS) : > sudo code --user-data-dir="~/.vscode-root" Today, i used the same command to execute vscode a...

In order to define my environment variables in a single place a configured a task in which a run a shell script. The task is run as preLaunchTask in my launch.json. In my launch.json I now try to ...

I am new to vscode extension development, recently I came across a sqlserver extension for vscode in channel 9 video. In that video at 5.20, after executing query the results of the query are sho...

I am trying to figure out how to run multiple tasks at once in the prelaunchtask of the launch.json file. My code in the tasks.json is as follows: "version": "2.0.0", "tasks": [ { "label": "Cl...

I have 2 tasks in visual studio code to run 2 different images into containers. Only the last docker run task is recognized by vscode. This is my tasks.json file { "version": "2.0.0...

On Windows I have to run the command start-ssh-agent.cmd on each new terminal session I open. My development environment is VSCode, and I open a dozen new terminals each day. After each terminal op...

I want do develop C programs with vscode. My tasks.json, which describes the build stage if I understood that correctly, looks like this: { "version": "2.0.0", "tasks&quo...

VSCode added a feature last year that will auto-run a task "on folder open". But what does "on folder open" mean when using workspaces? Specifically, if you open a workspace, will "runOn": "folde...

I want "tasks: Allow Automatic Tasks In Folder" to be enabled by default when i open a project this is the tasks.json { "version": "2.0.0", "tasks": [ { "type": "npm", "script": "gulp", "run...

Upon executing a task (cargo build in this case), the following appears in the VSCode terminal: > Executing task: cargo build < (output of the task here) Terminal will be reused by tasks, ...

I configured tasks.json to build and run the application. { "version": "2.0.0", "tasks": [ { "label": "build", "type": "shell&q...

My goal is to re-use a task window in VS Code. However, when I enter ctrl + c, the task stops, but then writes: "Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.". I don't want to clos...

I'm using Visual Studio Code (Version 1.8.1) on Linux. When there is a build error and I click on the line that contains the error it doesn't jump to the corresponding line in the code. Is there a ...

I tried to set environment variables for my Visual Studio Code tasks that will run in my Windows Subsystem Linux. However, it does not seem to work. Here is my tasks.json: { // See https://go.mic...

How can I open a specific file in a specified split view with an built-in command in VS codium? Is that possible without writing an extension? I have a project, and I periodically I want to open a ...

I'm trying to be able to have a keyboard shortcut that creates a new file with the datetime as the prefix and some additional text that I enter. I know there is a shortcut for generating a new fil...

We need a Visual Studio Code extension that monitors a specific folder on the file system, and when the contents of the folder change, it should trigger some action. Can an extension do that? I sup...

I try to create a simple regex-find and replace task in Visual Studio Code. Currently I copy from the AD some Users to a temporary file in Visual Studio code and remove the "CN=" at the beginning...

I'm on a Mac 💻. I'm trying to explore a way to create 4 Terminals as soon as I dbl-clicked on my workspace file. I've tried to get one working, but I seem stuck { "folders": [ { "path": "/User...

What is the working directory of a Visual Studio Code task? According to the official documentation, the default should be the workspace directory, i.e., workspaceFolder, but running a task which s...

Earlier, I created my ASP.NET Core web app using the 6.0 preview build, and I was able to debug it in VSCode. Then, I upgraded my app to the final 6.0 release a week ago. Since then I could no long...

I have created a new .NET Core application with the command: dotnet new console -o test When I try to run it in the Visual Studio Code debugger, I get: Could not find the preLaunchTask 'build'?...

I am trying to use environment variables within task in my tasks.json file of a C# project in vscode. In my launch.json file I have this code to parse a .env file: "configurations": [ { ... "e...