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Heikki
Heikki

Reputation: 351

Why Project Manager for Java VS Code extension is only showing me debug button rather that run?

I am trying to create project example with VS Code using Project Manager for Java (as part of the Extension Pack for Java, by Microsoft). On this short tutorial there is a run button, but for me I only see debug button:

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Why is this and how can I fix it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 104

Answers (2)

Sheng Chen
Sheng Chen

Reputation: 1275

We changed the shortcut button from run to debug several months ago. So the tutorial is out-of-date: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-java-debug/pull/1108

But if you really want to run your application instead of debug. You can still right-click on your project and find the run action.

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Upvotes: 1

Hantsy
Hantsy

Reputation: 9291

I open a Java/Maven project in my VSCode(updated to the latest 1.74.3), it also show a add and debug in the Java Projects view.

But it is easy to run the main application directly in VSCode.

  1. Open the application class which includes a static main method, there is a run/debug icon in the top right location of the title bar. Click it to run your application directly or select run or debug from the dropdown menu.

  2. Create a custom launch.json file. Click the Debug icon in the left pane to show Run/Debug view, and if there is no launch.json existed, it will guide to create one. In the launch.json file, setup a Launch Main task.

    {

    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
         "type": "java",
         "name": "Launch Main",
         "request": "launch",
         "mainClass": "com.example.demo.Main",
         "projectName": "demo"
         }
     ]
 }

    Then in the title bar of Run/Debug view, there is a dropdown box which includes a Launch Main task, click it and run your application.

Upvotes: 1

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