{"id":42,"date":"2019-03-31T07:11:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T07:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2019-03-31T07:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T07:27:19","slug":"shortcut-to-open-a-project-in-visual-studio-code-directly-from-windows-explorer-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/31\/shortcut-to-open-a-project-in-visual-studio-code-directly-from-windows-explorer-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortcut to open a project in Visual Studio Code directly from windows explorer view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To open a certain project you often do the following :- Locate <strong>VS Code<\/strong> shortcut and open it, then click on open project and then navigate to the project folder and then open it.<\/p>\n<p>What if I told you there&#8217;s a shortcut which I discovered a while ago and I&#8217;ve been using it ever since. Just navigate to project folder and in the address bar type this<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\">cmd \/k code .<\/pre>\n<p>#<strong>Tip\u00a0<\/strong>: you can also press\u00a0<strong>Ctrl + L\u00a0<\/strong>to highlight the address bar and start typing (also works in chrome)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aa9f95ecffc330ef406b531b854d629a16c82688.png\" alt=\"Shortcut to open a project in Visual Studio Code directly from windows explorer view\" width=\"821\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44 size-thumbnail alignleft\" style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: Merriweather;\" src=\"http:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shortcut-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>#TIP :<\/strong>\u00a0You can also run any command using\u00a0<strong><code>\"cmd \/k\"<\/code>\u00a0<\/strong>in the address bar. I use this extensively to store shortcuts in desktop and run commands easily. I hope you find this tip useful \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To open a certain project you often do the following :- Locate VS Code shortcut and open it, then click on open project and then navigate to the project folder and then open it. What if I told you there&#8217;s a shortcut which I discovered a while ago and I&#8217;ve been using it ever since. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritwick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}