Running C Programs with Visual Studio Code Editor

In this tutorial, we will see how we can configure visual studio code editor for C Programs and run the programs in Visual studio code itself.


Visual Studio Code is a streamlined code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running, and version control. It aims to provide just the tools a developer needs for a quick code-build-debug cycle and leaves more complex workflows to fuller featured IDEs, such as Visual Studio IDE.


To configure Visual Studio Code to compile C programs, you will need to install the "C/C++" extension by Microsoft. Once you have installed the extension, you can open your C program file in Visual Studio Code and use the "C/C++: Compile and Run" command to compile and run your program. You may also need to configure the extension with the path to your C compiler (such as MSVC or GCC) if it is not automatically detected. Additionally, you may want to set up tasks in your "tasks.json" file to build and run your program with a specific command.


For compilation you need extensive IDE, here i have used Visual Studio IDE and configured its compiler "cl.exe" in Visual studio Code to get the code build and run in VS code.


Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) is a compiler for the C, C++ and C++/CX programming languages by Microsoft.


Timeline:


00:00 Introduction and Pre-requisites
01:56 About Visual Studio Code Editor
04:14 Installing C/C++ Extension
04:27 Creating Project and Running C program