Could not find the preLaunch task 'build'

Question

To configure Visual Studio Code to debug C# scripts on OSX, I followed through all the steps listed in the article below:

Debugging C# on OSX with Visual Studio Cod

Answer 1

The error occurs because Visual Studio Code cannot find any task in the tasks.json with the taskName value set to 'build'.

The preLaunchTask property of the launch.json file defines the task that should be executed before the script is launched. From the question, Visual Studio Code has been configured to run the task build before launching the script:

preLaunchTask: 'build'

But there's no task named 'build' in the tasks.json file.

To fix this, you should change the value of the preLaunchTask property to 'exe', which is the build task that has been defined in the tasks.json file.