Open multiple Projects Folders in Visual Studio Code

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How do I open multiple projects folders in a single Visual Studio Code instance  and open multiple files in single view  Does it has any option for future change request

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You can open any folder  so if your projects are in the same tree  just open the folder beneath them   Otherwise you can open 2 instances of Code as another option

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On Windows it s possible to use mklink to create directory symbolic links to the needed folders  Then keep them together in a folder  and VSCode will list the content of these       c   gt mklink  D c  dev MyWork scripts c  ProjA scripts     symbolic link created for c  dev MyWork scripts  lt  lt     gt  gt  c  ProjA scripts      c   gt mklink  D c  dev MyWork styles c  ProjB styles     symbolic link created for c  dev MyWork styles  lt  lt     gt  gt  c  dev ProjB styles   This is very similar to  NeilShen s idea  I guess

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If you are using unix like OS  you can create a soft link to your target folder   E g  I want to see golang source while I am using VSCode  So  I create a soft link to go src under my project folder   ln -s  usr local go src gosrc   Hope this helps     Update  11 28  2017  Multi Root Workspaces 0  landed in the stable build  finally  https   code visualstudio com updates v1 18  support-for-multi-root-workspaces   0  https   github com Microsoft vscode issues 396

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Or you can just select multiple folders and then click open   Go to File  Open Folder  then select multiple folders you want to open and click Select Folder

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Just put your projects in the same folder and simply open that folder in vscode   Now your projects will appear like   GROUP OF PROJECTS   PROJECT 1   Contents Contents  PROJECT 2   Contents Contents

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What I suggest for now is to create symlinks in a folder  since VSCode isn t supporting that feature   First  make a folder called whatever you d like it to be     mkdir random project folder   cd random project folder   ln -s  path to folder1 you want to open folder1   ln -s  path to folder2 you want to open folder2   ln -s  path to folder3 you want to open folder3   code     And you ll see your folders in the same VSCode window

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To run one project at a time in same solution  Open Solution explorer window -  Open Solution for Project -  Right click on it  -  Select Properties from drop down list  Alt Enter -  Common Properties -  select Startup Project you will see  current selection single selection and multiple selection from that select  Current Selection  this will help you to run one project at a time in same solution workspace having different coding

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Not sure why the simplest solution is not mentioned  You can simply do File gt New Window and open the other project in the new window

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you can create a workspace and put folders in that   File   save workspace as and drag and drop your folders in saved workspace

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It s not possible to open a new instance of Visual Studio Code normally  neither it works if you open the new one as Administrator   Solution  simply right click on VS Code  exe file  and click  New Window  you can open as many new windows as you want

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Update  As mentioned in several other answers here  this  accepted  answer is outdated and is no longer correct   VS Code now has the concept of a  workspace  which lets you add several  root  folders to VS Code in the same window   For instance  when working on a project in one folder that utilizes shared code held in a different folder  you can now open both the project folder and the shared folder in the same window   To do this you use the Add folder to Workspace    command   VS Code then saves this configuration in a new file with a  code-workspace extension   If you double-click that file  VS Code will re-open with both folders present   Original Accepted Answer  Outdated   As described in The Basics of Visual Studio Code article    VSCode is file and folder based - you can get started immediately by opening a file or folder in VSCode    This means the concept of solution and project files  like the  sln and  csproj  have no real function in VSCode other than that it uses these only to target and identify which language to support for Intellisense and such   Simply put  the folder you open is the root you work with  But of course there is nothing from stopping you to open multiple windows    As for the request features options  navigate to Help   Request Features which will redirect you to the UserVoice page of VSCode

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You can open up to 3 files in the same view by pressing  CTRL

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Multiple Folders in VS     Click - File - Add Folder to Workplace    Step 1              Choose which project to work - Add press    Step 2

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You can install the Open Folder Context Menus for VS Code extension from Chris Dias  https   marketplace visualstudio com items itemName chrisdias vscode-opennewinstance   Restart Visual Studio Code Right click a folder and select  Open New Workbench Here    Open New Workbench Here

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Support for multi-root workspaces is now enabled by default in the latest stable release  November 2017 release    The File  gt  Add Folder to Workspace command brings up an Open Folder dialog to select the new folder

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October 2017  version 1 18        Support for multi-root workspaces is now enabled by default in the Stable release  https   code visualstudio com updates v1 18  support-for-multi-root-workspaces   Now we can open multiple folders in one instance  Visual studio code has named as Workspace   Area de Trabajo    Take a look at the images  it  s very simple

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Update This is now available out of the box as of October 2017  From the blog post   This was our  1 feature request - it s been a while coming but it s here now   The complete documentation is here   You can work with multiple project folders in Visual Studio Code with multi-root workspaces  This can be very helpful when you are working on several related projects at one time  For example  you might have a repository with a product s documentation which you like to keep current when you update the product source code     Original answer Currently the Insider channel of VSCode gives us this out of the box   Read more from the blog post

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You can use this extension known as Project Manager  In this the projects are saved in a file projects json  just save the project and by pressing Shift   Alt   P you can see the list of all your saved projects  from there you can easily switch your projects

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