Could not find the preLaunch task 'build'
It seems like this will be different for every scenario.
For me what @Jeferson Tenorio worked, but it needed a few more steps so let's add them:
- Click on Configure Task:
- Create tasks.json file from template
- .NET Core Executes .NET Core build commands
Go to your
launch.json
file, and under configurations/program you will find this:${workspaceFolder}/bin/Debug/<insert-target-framework-here>/<insert-project-name-here>.dll
Simply replace
<insert-target-framework-here>
and<insert-project-name-here>
with your target framework, in my case that would benetcoreapp2.0
and then your project name (if you haven't changed anything your project name should be the same as the folder where you created your project), it should look something like this:"program": "${workspaceFolder}/bin/Debug/netcoreapp2.0/MyProject.dll"
I hope this helps.
The error occurs because Visual Studio Code cannot find any task in the tasks.json with the taskName
value set to 'build'
.
The preLaunchTask
property of the launch.json file defines the task that should be executed before the script is launched. From the question, Visual Studio Code has been configured to run the task build
before launching the script:
preLaunchTask: 'build'
But there's no task named 'build'
in the tasks.json file.
To fix this, you should change the value of the preLaunchTask
property to 'exe'
, which is the build task that has been defined in the tasks.json file.
You can use the Visual Studio Code to solve it.
When you see the error message, click on the steps below
- Configure Task
- Create tasks.json file from template
- NET Core Executes .NET Core build commands
The VSCode will create a file like it:
{
// See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
// for the documentation about the tasks.json format
"version": "2.0.0",
"tasks": [
{
"label": "build",
"command": "dotnet build",
"type": "shell",
"group": "build",
"presentation": {
"reveal": "silent"
},
"problemMatcher": "$msCompile"
}
]
}
It's finished. The VSCode will build the project before run.