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Task Manager

Task Manager

Zhang Shen

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Manages tasks in Visual Studio Code.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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vscode-task-manager

Manages tasks in Visual Studio Code in a custom activity view.

Features

  • List all detected tasks grouped by sources, and by root folders
    • The task list is automatically refreshed when a common task file is changed (e.g. gulpfile.js)
  • Run/terminate/restart tasks directly in the custom activity view
  • Running tasks are indicated by an animated icon
  • Total number of running tasks is shown as view badge
  • Exclude tasks using a regular expression pattern taskManager.exclude

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Release Notes

1.0.0

  • View badge to indicate how many tasks are running

0.7.0

  • Organize tasks by scope/folder/source.

0.6.0

  • Added configuration taskManager.exclude.

0.5.0

  • Added menu item to restart running tasks.

0.4.2

  • Use built-in codicon in commands.
  • Fix a bug that doesn't show icon for tasks in execution.

0.4.1

  • Bundle the extension using webpack.

0.4.0

  • Use theme icons provided by vscode instead of custom icons for task sources.

0.3.0

  • Tasks from different root folders in multi-root workspaces are separated.
  • Animated running task icon.

0.2.0

Updated icons to match the new vscode style.

0.1.0

Initial release.

Credits

  • The extension icon (task.svg) is made by Pixel perfect from Flaticon.
  • The sync icon (sync.svg) is made by Those Icons from Flaticon.
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