Configuring Microsoft Visual Studio Code to run BMAKE

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Hi guys, 
 I've been using Microsoft Visual Studio Code to edit my CONNECT SDK applications. 
 At the moment I need to run the BMAKE command externally using the supplied SDK shell. 
 It's a bit tedious and does not allow me the option to click on an error and be taken directly to the affected code. 
 Is there any way to configure VSCODE to run the BMAKE command using its integrated terminal? 
 Are there other alternatives to VSCODE that offer this functionality? 
 
 Regards, 
 Benzi

Jan Šlegr · Accepted Answer

Hi Benzi, 
 Benzi Papo said: Is there any way to configure VSCODE to run the BMAKE command using its integrated terminal? 
 I have not tried to use Visual Studio Code for "full MicroStation app development", so I am not able to provide an advice. But I guess it's about to run VSC from MicroStation SDK dev shell and to (somehow) start bmake as background process. 
 Benzi Papo said: Are there other alternatives to VSCODE that offer this functionality? 
 The only officially supported development environment for SDK shell is Visual Studio 2015 Professional (when talking about the current MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 7). I did not try it, but I guess also VS 2015 Community edition can be used also. 
 In Visual Studio, C/C++ project has to be created as General > Makefile project and properly configured, so when Build is started, it calls not MSBuild but bmake. This system is quite flexible, because in such case VS works as editor plus allows to organize files, but it's compiled using tools defined in bmake. 
 I have no live native CE project now, but I have several V8i projects coded in the same way: VS 2017 is used as editor and as compiler for NET 3.5 code and other projects in the solution(s) are configured as NMake projects and compiled using bmake and VS2005 compiler. 
 With regards, 
 Jan

Configuring Microsoft Visual Studio Code to run BMAKE

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