I moved to Apple Mac late last year because of different set of technologies now I work in. As shared in one of my previous posts, I use Visual Studio Code for programming in Python exploring Machine Learning. Though, for anything in .NET, I switch to a Windows VM and use Visual Studio.
For quick console apps, it feels painful to switch to a VM and work. Thus, I looked and installed C# extension in VS Code to try of. Details are here.
While running a console app, I got stuck to read any value from Console. In debug mode, IDE would stop on the Console.ReadLine() but whatever I type in Console would not go through.
I looked around and found that there are few settings for Console in VS Code. The console setting controls what console (terminal) window the target app is launched into.
"internalConsole"(default) : This does NOT work for applications that want to read from the console (ex:Console.ReadLine).
How to Solve it?
Suggested way to take input is to set the console setting as integratedTerminal. This is a configuration setting in the launch.json file under .vscode folder.
"integratedTerminal": the target process will run inside VS Code’s integrated terminal (Terminal tab in the tab group beneath the editor). Alternatively add"internalConsoleOptions": "neverOpen"to make it so that the default foreground tab is the terminal tab.
Change the default setting like below:
With above change, the input and output will happen through integrated terminal like:
So far, it looks good and seems I will stick to Visual Studio Code on Mac for quick console applications.
Reference here.
Keep learning!