Description
Type: Bug
We have a launch.json. It looks like:
{
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"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"name": "ProjectNameDebug (macOS)",
"type": "dotnet",
"request": "launch",
"projectPath": "${workspaceFolder}/ProjectName/ProjectNameCs/ProjectName.csproj",
// "cwd" : "${workspaceFolder}"
},
}
It works, however, we are getting a confusing behavior where at runtime CWD is different depending on whether we press the run button or manually run dotnet run. To normalize this, we want to set the cwd of our launch.json target manually.
Several blog posts and StackOverflow answers, as well as, to my reading, this documentation page suggest that I should be able to put in a "cwd" key. However, when I enter this key (for example by removing the comment above) the "cwd" is underlined and it says "property cwd is not allowed". We see this warning both running VSCode on Windows and on Mac. If we ignore the warning and run anyway, it appears the "cwd" is being ignored.
If we change "type" to "coreclr", suddenly it lets us do "cwd" (the warning goes away). However if we do this other things break, and various documentation (including the debugger-settings page I link above) seem to suggest we want "type": "dotnet".
My "expected behavior" is that either it should work, or the debugger-settings documentation page on code.visualstudio.com— which already explains a number of exceptions to rules— should specify somewhere where the "cwd" key is or is not allowed (although not allowing you to set CWD would definitely be bizarre for an IDE).
VS Code version: Code 1.98.2 (ddc367e, 2025-03-12T13:32:45.399Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
Modes:
System Info
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| CPUs | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600 CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 x 3312) |
| GPU Status | 2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off |
| Load (avg) | undefined |
| Memory (System) | 15.95GB (0.79GB free) |
| Process Argv | --crash-reporter-id 016aba99-1948-45b1-92d2-e03054b45afc |
| Screen Reader | no |
| VM | 0% |
Extensions (8)
| Extension | Author (truncated) | Version |
|---|---|---|
| shaderlabvscodefree | aml | 1.3.6 |
| csdevkit | ms- | 1.20.35 |
| csharp | ms- | 2.80.16 |
| vscode-dotnet-runtime | ms- | 2.3.2 |
| cpptools | ms- | 1.25.3 |
| vsliveshare | ms- | 1.0.5948 |
| veriloghdl | msh | 1.16.0 |
| vstuc | vis | 1.1.2 |
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