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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 OS applications and systems.
About the QNX Toolkit
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 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 OS applications and systems.
- About the QNX Toolkit
  - Quickstart guide
    This guide will help you use the QNX Toolkit to quickly develop a program so you can run it on an 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.
- Using the Target Navigator
  The QNX development environment consists of a host and a target machine.
- Developing QNX Projects
  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 a your configuration (default location is ~/qnxprojects).
- Debugging and Launching
- 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.
- Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
  This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

Getting to know Visual Studio Code

Updated: November 27, 2023

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 simplifies building, running, and stopping programs. When appropriate, refer to the Visual Studio 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:

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