How do I open multiple instances of Visual Studio Code

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Today Microsoft released the Visual Studio Code file folder editor   The first limitation is it appears to be a single-instance application   Is there a way of getting multiple instances  or otherwise having it open multiple folders simultaneously

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Select menu File  rarr  New Window from the menu and then open the other folder in the new window

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You can open multiple windows  from the menu or by running the code executable again    However  unfortunately there seems to be no way to actually have separate instances at the moment  For example  if you have two shells open with different environments in each  different paths  etc    launching code for both will result in the second window sharing the same paths as the first  and ignoring the environment it was launched from

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Starting with our 0 9 0 release  we added a new setting window reopenFolders to control if Visual Studio Code should restore all folders of the previous session   By default only the last active window you worked on will be restored  but if you change this setting to all  Visual Studio Code will reopen all folders in their windows automatically

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Ctrl   Shift   P Duplicate Workspace in New Window  Enter  from  https   code visualstudio com updates v1 24  duplicate-workspace-in-new-window

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In Linux  tested with Ubuntu and Kali Linux  you can also right click the tile on the dock and select New Window

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Use code -n  when launching the program  This  quot Opens a new session of Visual Studio Code instead of restoring the previous session  quot   from here   The way I used this was by modifying my  quot Code quot  shortcut to include the -n parameter   If it does not work  restart VSCode

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Multiple instances of the same project   WORKAROUND  You cannot open multiple instances of the same folder but a workaround I have found is to open different folders   lib -components -models -helpers tests   So  here I might open components  models and tests in different windows and then I can view them on my three monitors   It sounds a bit simple but this has helped me a lot

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Ctrl   Shift   N will open a new window  while Ctrl K then releases the keys  and pressing O would open the current tab in a new window  You can then use menu File  rarr  Open Folder to have two instances of Visual Studio Code with different folders in each window       Shift   N and     K for Mac   List of helpful keyboard shortcuts can be found here

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If you want to open multiple instances of the same folder  then it is not currently supported  Watch and upvote this GitHub issue if you want to see it implemented  Support to open a project folder in multiple Visual Studio Code windows

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I came here to find out how to make VSCode  Mac OS  create a new window when a file or folder is opened and VSCode is already running  The same as GitHub Atom does  The answers above haven t answered my query  bit I ve found answer myself so will share    Setting  window openFilesInNewWindow - if set to on  files will open in a new window  window openFoldersInNewWindow - if set to on  folders will open in a new window   Bonus to make it behave like Atom  Set window newWindowDimensions to maximised

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In 2019  it will automatically open a new session  new instance of vs-code   By type          C  Apache24 htdocs json2tree gt code     at the command window  under your project root folder   first cd into your project folder           C  Apache24 htdocs json2tree gt    then  type           code

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To open a new instance with your project loaded from terminal  just type code  lt directory-path gt

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Multiple VS Code windows can be opened on the same effective folder if each opens the folder through a different path  For example  on Windows  a project in C  Git MyProject could be open in one instance of VS Code  while  MyPC c  Git MyProject is open in another instance  If the admin share  c   isn t available or suitable  an explicit share can be constructed that provides the necessary access   No  this isn t an ideal solution

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Easiest when you don t know the CTRL SHIFT N shortcut is to use the menu  File  New Window

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I like opening Visual Studio Code from the run prompt dialog instead  with a sweet and simple cmd  c code -n  Since the run dialog also maintains your command history on a per user basis  it is very convenient  One click and go -

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If you have all your JavaScript files in multiple folders under one folder that works out very well  and that s what I did

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You can also create a shortcut with an empty filename    LOCALAPPDATA  Local Code Code exe

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