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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
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.

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.

Quickstart guide

Updated: November 27, 2023

This guide will help you use the QNX Toolkit to quickly develop a program so you can run it on an QNX OS target.

The following table includes the necessary steps:


To:	Go to:
Set the default path to the directory location where QNX projects, targets, and examples are created. By default, the QNX projects root is set to the qnxprojects directory inside your home directory.	Developing QNX Projects
Configure the SDP path.	Configure the directory location of the QNX Software Development Platform using the Qnx: Sdp Path setting. Alternatively, to use values from environment variables type `use_env`. You can use SDP-provided scripts for setting up the environment located in the root directory of your SDP installation.
Create a default target. Enter an IP or hostname to connect to a QNX system on the network. Enter `vm` to begin creating a QNX OS virtual machine.	Managing targets
Create a project. Create example projects to help you get started developing applications for the QNX OS.	Creating a project
Debug and launch application.	Debugging and Launching
Monitor usage using the System Profiler.	Using the System Profiler