What is a 'workspace' in Visual Studio Code?

Question

I can\'t quite believe I am asking this question, but I have not been able to find a definition in the documentation. In case it isn\'t painfully obvious, I am (very) ne

Answer 1

Although the question is asking "what is a workspace?", I feel that the source of confusion is the expectation that workspaces should behave more like "projects" in other editors.

So, I to help all the people landing here because of this confusion, I wanted to post the following plugin for VS Code (not mine), "Project Manager": https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alefragnani.project-manager

It has a nice UI for managing (saving and opening) single-folder projects:

Save Projects:

Open projects with the palette:

See the current project in the status bar (click to open project palette):

Access projects in the sidebar: