VSCode

In the past VS Code would automatically create the .vscode directory with the tasks.json and launch.json files. This stopped happening some time ago, but there are still occasions when you need them. Here is a simple command to generate them.

It used to be easier to pass arguments to an application being debugged in VS Code, but in some one of the updates this changed. Here’s how to get it working again.

Getting VS Code to open the browser to a specific URL requires one small change, but it took me a while to find the right one. Read on to see how.

It is easy to debug an AWS Lambda function locally with Visual Studio Code, all you need to do is install one tool and make one change to the launch.json file. Read on to see how.

I often follow the src, test directory structure for my .NET projects. But if you open Visual Studio Code to the parent of these directories, you can’t use the build and test tasks without some modifications to the tasks.json file.

I thought it would be simple to add a task to run tests from the VS Code command palette, but it was not as straightforward as I hoped. Here’s how to do it.

There is a bug in VS Code that occurs when you use string with @$ - the verbatim character and the interpolation characters, but there is a workaround.

I have been using Visual Studio Code in Ubuntu Linux for a while, but it was not an easy process to get it working the first time. I just got around to installing .