json files are hidden because users generally don't want to check them into source control.

The tasks.vs.json and launch.vs.json files are created by Visual Studio on an as-needed basis when you choose either Configure Tasks or Debug and Launch Settings on a file or folder in Solution Explorer.

json files are located in a hidden folder called. Specify command-line arguments for debugging.Īccessed via the Solution Explorer right-click menu item Debug and Launch Settings. Specify custom build commands and compiler switches, and arbitrary (non-build related) tasks.Īccessed via the Solution Explorer right-click menu item Configure Tasks. For example, you can create a task to list the contents of a folder or to rename a file.Ĭustomize your project-less codebase by using the following. You can also create arbitrary tasks that can do nearly anything you want. You can create one or more build tasks to specify all the items a language needs to build and run its code. You instruct Visual Studio how to build your code by defining build tasks. If the codebase uses custom build tools that Visual Studio doesn't recognize, you need to provide some configuration details to run and debug the code in Visual Studio. If you opened a code folder in Visual Studio, and Visual Studio knows how to run your code, you can run it right away without any additional configuration. Visual Studio knows how to run many different languages and codebases, but it doesn't know how to run everything.

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio Code

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