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I have installed the preview version of Microsoft's new code editor "Visual Studio Code". It seems quite a nice tool!
The introduction mentions you can program c# with it, but the setup document does not mention how to actually compile c# files.
You can define "mono" as a type in the "launch.json" file, but that does not do anything yet. Pressing F5 results in: "make sure to select a configuration from the launch dropdown"...
Also, intellisense is not working for c#? How do you set the path to any included frameworks?
Launch.json:
"configurations": [ { // Name of configuration; appears in the launch configuration drop down menu. "name": "Cars.exe", // Type of configuration. Possible values: "node", "mono". "type": "mono", // Workspace relative or absolute path to the program. "program": "cars.exe", }, { "type": "mono", } 
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Run the gcc command to compile your C program. The syntax you'll use is gcc filename. c -o filename.exe . This compiles the program and makes it executable.
Usually, a first compiler is written in another language (directly in PDP11 assembler in this case, or in C for most of the "modern" languages). Then, this first compiler is used to program a compiler written in the language itself. You can read this page about the history of the C language.
Create a C source file and compile it on the command line. In the developer command prompt window, enter cd c:\ to change the current working directory to the root of your C: drive. Next, enter md c:\hello to create a directory, and then enter cd c:\hello to change to that directory.
Since no one else said it, the short-cut to compile (build) a C# app in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is SHIFT+CTRL+B.
If you want to see the build errors (because they don't pop-up by default), the shortcut is SHIFT+CTRL+M.
(I know this question was asking for more than just the build shortcut. But I wanted to answer the question in the title, which wasn't directly answered by other answers/comments.)
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