Using Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a free graphical code editor provided by Microsoft. It may be used for editing code, git repository management, building projects, running built programs and flashing target devices.

If Visual Studio Code is required for development, follow the instructions in this section to get started. If it is not required skip this section and go to Using the command line tools.

See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs for full documetation.

Visual Studio Code terminology is referred to in the remainder of this document. For details see: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface.

• Building an example
  • Copy the example
  • Starting VS Code
  • Setup VS Code to use XCommon CMake
  • Configure the example
  • Build the example
  • Running the example
  • Flashing the example
  • Using the TERMINAL
• Using VS Code with a real project
  • Specifying extra arguments to xrun and xflash