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Build Button

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Adds a Build toolbar button
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Build Button

Adds a Build button to the Editor Toolbar (seen alongside the open document tabs).
This button simply runs the default configured Build task, which is usually bound to Ctrl+Shift+B.

Build button in light mode Build button in dark mode

The default build task will be configured in .vscode/tasks.json like so:

"tasks": [
  {
    "group": {
      "kind": "build",
      "isDefault": true
    }
    ...

Known Issues

  • The build button will still be present even when a default Build task is not configured. It will silently do nothing when clicked.

Release Notes

1.0.0

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0.1.0

Initial release

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