Running and debugging a WPF project in Visual Studio Code

The special things to take into account to run and debug a WPF project in Visual Studio Code are:

• In *.csproj:

  • Target Platform needs to be x64: x64;
  • PDB needs to be portable: portable
  • Set generator on *.xaml files: MSBuild:Compile

• In .vscode/tasks.json:

  • command needs to point to msbuild.exe: "command": "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe"

  This is setup for Visual Studio 2017 Professional tools. Ajust if a different version is used.

• In .vscode/launch.json:

  • Launch type is clr: "type": "clr"
  • program point to build resultin .exe: "program": "${workspaceRoot}/bin/Debug/wpf-vscode.exe"

To test, just open this folder in Visual Studio Code and hit F5.