Is it possible to open multiple VSCode windows at the same time?

Question

With PyCharm, I can have multiple windows for projects at the same time.

Is it possible to do that with VSCode?

Answer 1

I am using this build:

Version: 1.45.1
Commit: 5763d909d5f12fe19f215cbfdd29a91c0fa9208a
Date: 2020-05-14T08:33:47.663Z
Electron: 7.2.4
Chrome: 78.0.3904.130
Node.js: 12.8.1
V8: 7.8.279.23-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 19.4.0

If you want to open 2 windows - one with project 1 and the other with project 2, you could do this:

Open Visual Studio Code > File > New Window (or press Shift+Command+N)

That opens 2 different instances in their respective windows.

Command line

Assuming code, the executable, is in your PATH, you could open multiple instances in their respective windows.

Let's say you had 2 directories: project1 and project2 like so:

~ % ls -h project*
project1:
test.py

project2:
hello.php

You can do this:

cd project1
code .

# Let VS Code come up

cd ../project2
code .

# Another instance of VS Code will come up