Visual Studio Code: Failed to launch external program dotnet

Question

Visual Studio Code 1.0.0

Mac OS X 10.11.4

DNX is installed and I can run .NET Core application from terminal. Getting the following error when try to run .NET Core project.

Output window:

Failed to launch external program dotnet .

spawn dotnet ENOENT

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I experienced this problem today - it seems to be caused by my running zsh as my shell and launching VS code from the terminal. When I launch from bash or using spotlight everything works.

Apparently VS code has some hacky dependencies on bash - there is a discussion about this issue here:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/8434