Visual Studio Code Integration¶
By Lex Li
This page shows you how to configure Jexus Manager with Visual Studio Code.
Background¶
Jexus Manager has been designed to be compatible with Microsoft IIS Manager, so that it helps many developers to manage IIS and IIS Express with intuitive user interface.
In the meantime, Visual Studio Code users often find it difficult to work with IIS/IIS Express, because no existing extension provides rich access to all the important settings.
That’s why this new IIS and IIS Express extension for Visual Studio Code is made available now to bridges the two worlds. Developers can now easily launch Jexus Manager to manage IIS/IIS Express while working on web projects inside Visual Studio Code.
Install The Extension¶
The extension has been published to VS Code Marketplace so you can install it easily from there.
Jexus Manager is a prerequisite and should be installed following Install Jexus Manager on Windows.
Select Existing Configuration Files¶
If you open an ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core project in VS Code, it might already have a configuration file generated by Visual Studio or Rider.
This extension scans the working directory and detects all the files that named applicationhost.config so that from newly added status bar button you can flip among the files or a temp file .iisapplicationhost.config.
Once the selection is made, use View | Command Pallette… to open the command by this extension and Jexus Manager will be launched.
Next Step¶
You can now move on to learn how to use Jexus Manager to start/stop the site, as well as how to open the web browser from there.