What is the Difference between folder and workspace?

Question

"There are two options in vscode namely "Open Folder" and "Open WorkSpace". What is the difference between them? When should we use folder or workspace?

Answer 1

vscode --> WorkSpace

In workspace we have privilege to save our setting at the workspace level, not only this here you can open multiple folders in a workspace.If you want to do either of those things, use a workspace, otherwise, just open a folder. In vscode there is list of project's folders and files.A workspace can contain multiple folders. You can customize the settings and preferences of a workspace.

A workspace is a folder, or multiple folders, mapped to areas in TFS. When code is checked out of TFS, the code is stored locally based off your workspace mappings. When you make changes to your code files, you are making those changes locally, to the files contained in your workspace.

One of the main reasons for workspaces is isolation. It provides a private sandbox where code changes can be made without having to worry if the changes will affect other team members. The changes remain in the local workspace until are checked into TFS.

TFS was designed to allow for one or more workspaces on the same machine. A single workspace can be created that contains multiple team projects and their code, or a more targeted workspace that only contains a particular project. There is no hard and fast rule for the best way to create workspaces. It will depend on personal preference, methodology, environment and the like.

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vscode --> folder

When we want to work on single folder irrespective of their dependencies or in-dependencies and when we wants to opens a new instance of VS Code scoped to the selected folder OR to the folder containing the selected file.

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