Visual studio Code, open current file in External Application

Question

I am trying to write a simple extension in Visual Studio Code, the extension will simply take the current file and launch it in external application. How can we do that?

Answer 1

Found an answer using VS Code Tasks. will appreciate if someone has a solution using extensions.

{
    "version": "0.1.0",

    // we want to run vs
    "command": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe",

    // the command is a shell script
    "isShellCommand": true,

    "showOutput": "silent",

     "args": ["/edit", "${file}"]

}

Answer 2

You can use anything that is available on node / npm. In your case you can just use spawn https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html

Alternatively you can use open which I personally love from foreground process launching : https://www.npmjs.com/package/open