Using VS Code

VS Code is a free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provided by Microsoft. It may be used for editing code, Git repository management, building projects (source bases) to generate target binaries, launching target binaries and flashing target devices.

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

VS 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