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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.
About QNX Toolkit
QNX Toolkit for Visual Studio Code provides Visual Studio Code users with access to the world-class POSIX-based QNX development environment.
Getting to know Visual Studio Code
The QNX Toolkit is based on the Visual Studio Code but adds many features and tools for debugging, profiling, and monitoring applications on QNX-based systems.

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 OS in the Amazon cloud environment.
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 QNX Toolkit
  QNX Toolkit for Visual Studio Code provides Visual Studio Code users with access to the world-class POSIX-based QNX development environment.
  - Quickstart guide
    This guide will help you use the QNX Toolkit to quickly develop a program so you can run it on a QNX OS target.
  - Known issues
  - Getting to know Visual Studio Code
    The QNX Toolkit is based on the Visual Studio Code but adds many features and tools for debugging, profiling, and monitoring applications on QNX-based systems.
  - Licensing
    For SDP 8.0, once you've set your SDP's location in the extension, QNX Toolkit checks the SDP for a valid license key based on the IDE. If there is a problem with the license key, QNX Toolkit prompts you with an error message. Without a valid, activated license key, some features of QNX Toolkit are disabled.
- 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.
- 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 isn't covered in the other chapters.
- 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.

Getting to know Visual Studio Code

The QNX Toolkit is based on the Visual Studio Code but adds many features and tools for debugging, profiling, and monitoring applications on QNX-based systems.

The UI of our IDE includes a target navigator, which is used for creating and managing target connections. The QNX Toolkit also offers a list of commands implemented within VS Code, such as those for creating projects and capturing traces. It contributes build- and run-related features through the context menu in the VS Code Explorer and other VS Code features such as launch configurations and tasks. When appropriate, refer to the VS Code documentation for components that are part of the underlying platform and are presented in the same way in our IDE.

If you want to learn about VS Code and its built-in features, you can read the Get Started with VS Code walkthrough included with the IDE:

To view the walkthrough inside VS Code:

Click Help > Welcome.
Click Get Started with VS Code.

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