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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.
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.

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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 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.
- 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.

Glossary

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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.

SDP Path: Directory location of the QNX Software Development Platform
QNX Target: A target connection in which the IDE talks to the qconn agent at the specified target port. This target type works with physical boards or pre-existing VMs, and allows you to run and debug your programs, or analyze them using any of the integrated tools.
QNX Virtual Machine Target: This target type lets you create a VM that runs QNX OS. All tasks related to running, debugging, and analyzing programs with any tool are supported. You can generate QNX VMs for many kinds of commercial third-party VM platforms
QNX Recursive Makefile: An application or library project which uses QNX's recursive make build system.
Simple Makefile: A QNX OS application or utility using a traditional makefile.
QNX CMake Project: An application or library project which uses the CMake build system, in conjunction with the QNX compiler tool chain.

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