How can I launch an exe within a conda env

Question

I'm using vscode in Windows 10 as my code editor, and want to make an easy way to launch it with the correct conda env to allow debugging.

Currently I am having to open a command prompt, then activate the conda env, then paste the shortcut to vscode into the prompt to execute. Like so:

cmd
activate env-name
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe"

I have tried creating a batch file to wrap these calls, but unfortunately once I call "source activate" to start the conda env, the batch commands after this are not executed as it is considered another instance.

Any tips? Other than writing a vscode extension to handle this (which I'm seriously tempted to do, but it's such a simple problem...)

Answer 1

You might want to run source activate env-name as a task in visual studio. https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/tasks

tasks.json

{
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "command": "cmd",
    "isShellCommand": true,
    "suppressTaskName": true,
    "args": [],
    "tasks": [
        {
            "taskName": "development",
            "args": ["source", "activate", "env-name"]
        }
    ]
}