How to make Visual Studio Code automatically load required assets

Question

I have started using Visual Studio Code.

I did the following steps to create a new .Net Core console project:

• Opened a folder
• Started the Terminal
• Issued the command dotnet new
• Issued the command dotnet restore
• Hit F5

I always get a Warn sign about the missing assets:

I chose Do not ask me again, and it was a very bad idea as it creates a template tasks.json and I have to manually replace the output path.

Unfortunately, there is no option like Do not ask me again and load the assets automatically, so it seems I have to manually load whenever I create a new project.

Is there a better solution?

Answer 1

The Visual Studio Code C# extension can generate assets to build and debug for you. If you missed the prompt when you first opened a new C# project, you can still run this command by opening the Command Palette (View > Command Palette) and typing ">.NET: Generate Assets for Build and Debug". Selecting this will generate the .vscode, launch.json, and tasks.json configuration files that you need.

Source: https://github.com/dotnet/docs/pull/6456/files/0af542730e9b108964a09fe67b16d5bd70626fca#diff-1e85f61328dc43337b1fbf612b1b8b57dfdd8bb3768daf9004dcd9b4ae38f4b0

Answer 2

Edit: this is not directly answering the real question but answering a similar question that linked me to here of "what do I do if I hit 'Don't ask me again' by mistake.". Feel free to downvote :-)

It's crappy, but you CAN get around the disappearance of the prompt by manually deleting a flag.

From the command palette, "toggle developer tools"

From there, look go to the "application tab" and look at "file" under "local storage"

Scroll through the list until you find the "workspace" row that points to the workspace you need. You'll find a json blob that looks similar to this.

You should see assetPromptDisabled set to true. Set it to false and restart VS Code. Now you'll get the prompt again.