If your workspace has only one launchable project, the C extension will. To debug your app in VS Code, you'll first need to setup your debugging launch configuration file - launch.json.Ĭlick on the Configure gear icon on the Debug view top bar, choose your debug environment and VS Code will generate a launch.json. Visual Studio Code generates a launch.json with almost all of the required information. The Debug view displays all information pertaining to debugging and has a top bar with debugging commands and configuration settings. Click on the add configuration option in the dropdown list. To bring up the Debug view, click on the Debugging icon in the View Bar on the side of VS Code. To run or debug a simple app in VS Code, select Run and Debug on the Debug start view or press F5 and VS Code will try to run your currently active file. Step 1 Enable debugging in our project We will click on the debug icon (left hand sidebar).

Once you are all set up this page will take you through the debugging scenarios we support. Follow this guide to do a run-through with Node.js: It is helpful to first create a sample Node.js application before reading about debugging. For debugging other languages, please look for Debuggers extensions in our VS Code Marketplace.

Today we have good debugging support for Node.js (JavaScript and TypeScript) on all platforms and experimental support for Mono (C# and F#) on OS X and Linux. VS Code's built-in debugger helps accelerate your edit, compile and debug loop.

One of the key features of Visual Studio Code is its great debugging support.

Visual studio code debugger launch.json