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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.
Using the Target Navigator
The QNX development environment consists of a host and a target machine.

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
- Using the Target Navigator
  The QNX development environment consists of a host and a target machine.
  - Managing targets
    You can create targets in QNX Toolkit using the Target Navigator. When you create a target, you can either connect to a QNX target, or create a QNX virtual machine target.
  - Remote file system operations
- 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.

Using the Target Navigator

Updated: November 27, 2023

The QNX development environment consists of a host and a target machine.

The host is where you write and build your code. This machine runs Windows or Linux and contains the QNX SDP and IDE. The target is where you run, debug, and profile your applications. This machine runs QNX OS and contains the embedded system you're designing (and all of the applications for it). The QNX Toolkit lets you build, run, and debug your QNX OS applications and systems in the familiar environment of Visual Studio Code.

The target can be a physical board or an existing virtual machine. In these two cases, you must manually set up host-target communication, which can be based on an IP or hostname. The target can also be a QNX virtual machine (VM) that you create through the QNX Toolkit. Creating your own VM is convenient because you can use QNX Toolkit to perform management tasks such as starting, stopping, and deleting virtual targets.

For all target types, you must create a target connection to tell the IDE where your applications run. Go to Managing targets for details.