In such a way that it is not in a sub shell. I need it to be able to prepare the environment...set environment variable. "version": "0.1.0", "command": "${workspaceFolder}/Invoke-Task.ps1", /*"com...

I want to create a VSCode extension that generate a shell task, like shell task with additional generic properties. Example: When user choose a task (my specific task that the extension is prov...

I am trying to define a VSCode task in tasks.json that would adapt to the specific architecture where VSCode runs. To do this, I want to get the architecture as uname --m (e.g. "aarch64" or "amd64"...

I'm using TypeScript and constantly having to start the tsc-watch task manually. According to to the Blog VSCode v1.30+ can automatically run tasks when a folder is opened but this is not working f...

I want to create a custom VS Code task with my own schema docs vscode task e.g. A new tree view which is empty and when user click on + button (a new tree view with button which is similar source...

When I created a Node task for Visual Studio Code it created a tasks.json file inside the .settings folder for the folder that you have open (node-app in this case as shown in the image below). ie:...

I want to connect Nox android emulator to VS Code for developing Android apps by the flutter before I run the vs code, adb devices command show me a list of connected devices that contains nox but...

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor is quite nice, but it has no default support for building C++ projects. How do I configure it to do this?

Visual Studio Code was just updated to allow running a task and having them open in a split terminal. This is great, however I'm looking for one more thing to make this perfect. I would like to be...

Would like to set up VS Code to work with Cygwin/Cygwin64. Already have these set up: Installed Cygwin64 on windows Installed gcc (Compiler) and gdb (Debugger) packages from Cygwin installer GCC ...

I work with large html files that I would like to fragment into separate files. The process of doing this is quite tedious as it requires copying the code, creating a new file, pasting it in the ne...

I try to put a path in tasks.json for typescript type task: { "version": "2.0.0", "tasks": [ { "identifier": "tsc-client", "label": "tsc-client", "type": "typescript", "tsconfig": "src/c...

I've built an extension for a programming language that I use and I've created hotkey shortcuts for calling the compiler executable with the currently open document's URI. I want to convert that to...

When compiling from the command line I can specify tsc -b --verbose However I can't figure out how to configure the default build task in vs code to do the same. I can't find any related entry i...

I'm working in a kml (xml) file in VSCode. There are 267 instances of the <description></description> tags with the same contents schema but different contents. I would like a fast way ...

I work on a project which uses "make and gcc" to compile all its modules. These modules are on their own folders and have their own Makefiles. A global Makefile calls them in order to compile the b...

I know how to create a new terminal from a VSCode extension using the vscode.window.createTerminal method. This method returns a reference to the terminal so that I can subsequently interact with i...

I have a VSCode extension which has an installationDependency in the package.json: "extensionDependencies": [ "publisher.packagename" ] this works well - it runs the activation event for the d...

I'm using Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to code .Net Core 2.0 App and would like to use the VSCode debugger for that. I created a launch.json, which works with my frontend code, but I'd like to also ...

In VS Code I have defined a task: "tasks": [ { "label": "getcredentials", "type": "shell", "command": ".\\TestScripts\\GetCredentials.ps1" } ] GetCredentials.ps1 creates a credential and a...

I have been ploughing through the documentation of Visual Studio Code to figure out how to add multiple consecutive tasks to the tasks.json file. The tasks array only allows for creating different...

I have a build task that takes at least 2 seconds to finish in tasks.json. I also have different very quick task for cleaning some files in tasks.json. I have 3 configurations in launch.json: se...

I have my build run my application until I kill it. This works fine, but it would be nice to bind "Terminate Running Tasks" to a keyboard shortcut. Is this possible?

Is there a way to run a problem matcher on output programmatically? I'd make a certain command (compile files to DB) and then runnnig problem matcher on recevied console/terminal output, as an exte...

I'm trying to avoid having to use watch: true in a tsconfig.json configuration. Through VSCode's tasks I'm using the base problem matcher $tsc-watch but it's not launching tsc in watch mode when b...