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As described in previous chapter, Visual Studio Code is more than a simple code editor because it enables you to execute operations such as compiling and testing code by running external tools. In this chapter, you learn how VS Code can execute external programs via tasks, by both existing tasks and customized tasks. To run the examples provided in this chapter, you need the following software:
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Del Sole, A. (2023). Automating Tasks. In: Visual Studio Code Distilled. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9484-0_8
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