Visual Studio For Mac Open Folder

Visual Studio is a cross platform, lightweight IDE for application development which runs on both Mac and Linux. Debugging experience is really amazing and now with its latest update, you can install a number of extensions for your favorite open source language. Default folder 'Open' command Mac 2011 Word I would like to change the folder that Word opens when I hit the 'open' folder icon, or the open command in the File menu. I would like it to open up Documents, but instead it opens a folder within Documents that I rarely use.

📂 Finder toolbar app to open current folder in Visual Studio Code

Installation and usage:

  • Download app for Light or Dark mode or using brew cask install open-in-code(if using VS Code Insiders, download this instead)
  • Move Open in Code.app to /Applications
  • Go to /Applications
  • While holding Command key, drag Open in Code.app to Finder toolbar
  • Right-click Open in Code.app and click Open. When the security dialog prompt appears, click Open.
  • Once Visual Studio Code new window is opened, close it.
  • Navigate to a folder you want to open with Visual Studio Code
  • Click on the toolbar icon
  • Folder will open with Visual Studio Code
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For visual Studio Code is there a way to open a new window every time I drag a folder onto the mac doc or drag a folder into the Editor window?

Charlie WuCharlie Wu
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Currently we replace the running instance when you drop something into the editor window and I think that is natural gesture when you drop into an instance.

As for dropping onto the dock, our version 0.3.0 contains a fix to support the behavior to open a new window!

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