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QNX Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
This User's Guide describes the QNX^® Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. The guide introduces you to the QNX Toolkit by explaining the QNX development environment and how to build, run, and debug your QNX^® Operating System (OS) applications and systems.
Developing QNX Projects
The QNX Toolkit contains wizards for creating projects based on specific programming languages.

QNX Momentics IDE User's Guide
This User's Guide describes version 8.0 of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that's part of the QNX Tool Suite.
QNX Software Development Platform
QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running the QNX OS 8.0.
QNX Software in the Cloud
QNX Software in the Cloud enables developers to use the QNX software in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (Azure).
QNX Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
This User's Guide describes the QNX^® Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. The guide introduces you to the QNX Toolkit by explaining the QNX development environment and how to build, run, and debug your QNX^® Operating System (OS) applications and systems.
- About the QNX Toolkit
  The QNX Toolkit for the Visual Studio Code provides VS Code users with access to the world-class POSIX-based QNX development environment.
- Using the Target Navigator
  The QNX development environment consists of a host and a target machine.
- Developing QNX Projects
  The QNX Toolkit contains wizards for creating projects based on specific programming languages.
  - Creating a project
    You can create several different types of projects. You can also open sample projects to get up and running quickly with QNX sample code.
  - Configuring an existing project
    You can configure an existing non-QNX project using the QNX Toolkit.
  - Working with tasks
    You can launch and configure tasks to automate the steps when running your project's tools and scripts.
  - Transitioning from Momentics IDE to QNX Toolkit
    This section describes the differences between Momentics IDE and QNX Toolkit, including project structure, build system, debugging, and application packaging. It is intended to help you transition to using QNX Toolkit as your development environment. To learn how to migrate your projects from Momentics IDE to QNX Toolkit, go to com.qnx.doc.qnxtoolkit.user_guide/topic/configuring_an_existing_project.html#configuring_an_existing_project__porting.
- Debugging and Launching
  The QNX Toolkit allows you to debug or run an application remotely on a QNX target.
- Using the System Profiler
  You can use the System Profiler to render different types of trace analysis, such as graphs and tables.
- References
  The reference topics provide information about QNX Toolkit features and workflows that aren't covered in the other chapters.
- Tutorials
  Tutorials aim to help you understand how to use QNX Toolkit with your own applications by providing step-by-step guides.
- Glossary
  To make best use of the QNX Toolkit, we recommend that you become familiar with the following terms, which are used throughout the user interface and documentation.
QNX Hypervisor User's Guide
This User's Guide explains the QNX hypervisor architecture and provides instructions for installing and running a QNX Hypervisor system, changing system components and configuration, and using hypervisor features such as virtual devices (vdevs).
Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation, explains how to obtain technical support, and provides some information about licensing.

Developing QNX Projects

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The QNX Toolkit contains wizards for creating projects based on specific programming languages.

This chapter discusses QNX projects, which support C or C++ programs on multiple processors, with standard or recursive makefiles. To use the QNX Toolkit to write applications targeted for QNX OS systems, you must define projects, which are folders in the filesystem. A VS Code workspace is a collection of these folders and VS Code settings defined by the .code-workspace file. QNX projects are saved to a folder defined in your configuration (default location is home directory/qnxprojects).

The steps which follow demonstrate how to:

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