Open multiple Projects/Folders in Visual Studio Code

Question

How do I open multiple projects/folders in a single Visual Studio Code instance, and open multiple files in single view? Does it has any option for future change request?

Answer 1

Update

This is now available out of the box as of October 2017. From the blog post:

This was our #1 feature request - it's been a while coming but it's here now.

The complete documentation is here.

You can work with multiple project folders in Visual Studio Code with multi-root workspaces. This can be very helpful when you are working on several related projects at one time. For example, you might have a repository with a product's documentation which you like to keep current when you update the product source code.

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Original answer

Currently the Insider channel of VSCode gives us this out of the box.

Read more from the blog post.

Answer 2

To run one project at a time in same solution

Open Solution explorer window -> Open Solution for Project -> Right click on it -> Select Properties from drop down list (Alt+Enter)-> Common Properties -> select Startup Project you will see "current selection,single selection and multiple selection from that select "Current Selection" this will help you to run one project at a time in same solution workspace having different coding.

Answer 3

Support for multi-root workspaces is now enabled by default in the latest stable release [November 2017 release].

The File > Add Folder to Workspace command brings up an Open Folder dialog to select the new folder.

Answer 4

You can install the Open Folder Context Menus for VS Code extension from Chris Dias

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=chrisdias.vscode-opennewinstance

• Restart Visual Studio Code
• Right click a folder and select "Open New Workbench Here"

Open New Workbench Here

Answer 5

You can open up to 3 files in the same view by pressing [CTRL] + [^]

Answer 6

If you are using unix like OS, you can create a soft link to your target folder.

E.g. I want to see golang source while I am using VSCode. So, I create a soft link to go/src under my project folder.

ln -s /usr/local/go/src gosrc

Hope this helps!

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Update: 11/28, 2017

Multi Root Workspaces[0] landed in the stable build, finally. https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_18#_support-for-multi-root-workspaces

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/396