vscode-mutliple-project

How to Build and Debug multiple .NET projects in Visual Studio Code (vscode)

Suppose we have mutliple projects with a structure like this :

- src
  - SampleProject.Api
    - SampleProject.Api.csproj
  - SampleProject.Console
    - SampleProject.Console.csproj
  - SampleProject.Lib
    - SampleProject.Lib.csproj

Note that we don't have a solution file here. But with a solution, it's not very different.

• Create a directory named .vsocde in your working directory root.
• Create a file inside .vscode and name it tasks.json -> task.json
• Create another file inside .vscode and name it launch.json -> launch.json

For debugging .NET application we must install omnisharp plugin on vscode.

Tasks

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "build Lib",
            "command": "dotnet",
            "type": "shell",
            "args": [
                "build",
                "${workspaceFolder}/src/SampleProject.Lib"
            ],
            "problemMatcher": [
                "$msCompile"
            ],
            "presentation": {
                "reveal": "always"
            },
            "group": "build"
        },
        {
            "label": "build Api",
            "command": "dotnet",
            "type": "shell",
            "args": [
                "build",
                "${workspaceFolder}/src/SampleProject.Api"
            ],
            "problemMatcher": "$msCompile",
            "presentation": {
                "reveal": "always"
            },
            "group": "build"
        },
        {
            "label": "build Console",
            "command": "dotnet",
            "type": "shell",
            "args": [
                "build",
                "${workspaceFolder}/src/SampleProject.Console"
            ],
            "problemMatcher": "$msCompile",
            "presentation": {
                "reveal": "always"
            },
            "group": "build"
        }
    ]
}

Launch

{
    "configurations": [
    {
        "name": "Api",
        "type": "coreclr",
        "request": "launch",
        "preLaunchTask":  "build Api",
        "program": "${workspaceFolder}/src/SampleProject.Api/bin/Debug/net6.0/SampleProject.Api.dll",
        "args": [],
        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/src/SampleProject.Api",
        "stopAtEntry": false,
        "console": "externalTerminal"
    },
    {
        "name": "Console",
        "type": "coreclr",
        "request": "launch",
        "preLaunchTask": "build Console",
        "program": "${workspaceFolder}/src/SampleProject.Console/bin/Debug/net6.0/SampleProject.Console.dll",
        "args": [],
        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/src/SampleProject.Console",
        "stopAtEntry": false,
        "console": "integratedTerminal"
    }],
    "compounds": [
        {
            "name": "Debug All",
            "configurations": [
                "Api",
                "Console"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Now we can go to Debug tab and debug one or all our applications we already definded in launch.json file.

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