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Debugging Java code in Visual Studio Code

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Debugging Java code in Visual Studio Code

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- Having an easy debugging experience is essential to understand how the code behaves, and where it fails, so you can troubleshoot it quickly. Even though VS Code is not a Java specific editor, you would be surprised by the debugging features it comes with. We already saw how to run an app. Just simply click on the run icon in the top right corner. By default, the debugger will run out of the box by automatically finding the main class, and generating a default launch configuration and memory, to launch your application. But if you have multiple main methods, or different arguments, this is where we first need to configure the launch configuration. VS Code will do this for you automatically. Just click create launch.json file link in the run and debug view. You can also run and debug your code by clicking here, in the run and debug view. Or through CodeLens, which adds two links above the main method. This is our…

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