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Brian Hauger

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Run tasks from a status bar button
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Project Tasks

A simple status bar button to invoke the built in VS Code command: workbench.action.tasks.runTask

Features

Adds a button to the status bar to invoke VS Code's built in command to run tasks.

Project Tasks In Action

Extension Settings

The tasks shown by this extension's button are ones automatically scanned for by VS Code and include tasks from Gulp, Grunt, Jake, and npm. Tasks relevent to TypeScript's tsconfig.json and tasks defined in VS Code's tasks.json are also shown.

The following built-in VS Code settings can be used to remove tasks from the dropdown:

{
    "typescript.tsc.autoDetect": "off",
    "grunt.autoDetect": "off",
    "jake.autoDetect": "off",
    "gulp.autoDetect": "off",
    "npm.autoDetect": "off"
}

Known Issues

None

Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release

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