With a downloaded and installed version of Visual Studio Code 1.2.1, and a 64bit version of node.exe msi placed in my working directory (I am assuming that is correct), how
This is the solution according to the VS code debugging page. This worked for my setup on Windows 10.
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"type": "node",
"request": "launch",
"name": "Launch Program",
"program": "${file}"
}
The solution is here:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/debugging
Here is the launch configuration generated for Node.js debugging