How to Run two .net core apps with debugging On using Visual Studio Code ?

When developing a web application we separate our application with *.web being initial server-side application and  *.api application which will help us fetch/update data for client-side operations and avoid page reloads.

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Here is .NET Core application I was working on which had a similar kind of ask, and I wanted to use VSCode to debug my application.

This is how we do it, first, we need to create a solution so that we keep both the API and Web project in one place

dotnet new sln -n appname
dotnet sln add src/appname/appname.web.csproj
dotnet sln add src/appname/apname.api.csproj

Open "launch.json" and Click on add configuration and add then select

.NET Core Launch (web) 

No go ahead and rename to web or web-api, also add a development URL with a different than web configs the "env" property

"env": {
"ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development",
"ASPNETCORE_URLS": "https://localhost:5001"
}

Done now just run each of the configs with debug mode and happy debugging!

For reference adding the complete launch.json

	{
	"version": "0.2.0",
	"configurations": [
	{
	"name": ".NET Core Launch (web-api)",
	"type": "coreclr",
	"request": "launch",
	"preLaunchTask": "build",
	"program": "${workspaceFolder}/serviceflow.api/bin/Debug/netcoreapp2.2/serviceflow.api.dll",
	"args": [],
	"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/serviceflow.api",
	"stopAtEntry": false,
	"internalConsoleOptions": "openOnSessionStart",
	"launchBrowser": {
	"enabled": true,
	"args": "${auto-detect-url}",
	"windows": {
	"command": "cmd.exe",
	"args": "/C start ${auto-detect-url}"
	},
	"osx": {
	"command": "open"
	},
	"linux": {
	"command": "xdg-open"
	}
	},
	"env": {
	"ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development",
	"ASPNETCORE_URLS": "https://localhost:5001"
	},
	"sourceFileMap": {
	"/Views": "${workspaceFolder}/Views"
	}
	},
	{
	"name": ".NET Core Launch (web)",
	"type": "coreclr",
	"request": "launch",
	"preLaunchTask": "build",
	"program": "${workspaceFolder}/serviceflow.web/bin/Debug/netcoreapp2.2/serviceflow.web.dll",
	"args": [],
	"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/serviceflow.web",
	"stopAtEntry": false,
	"internalConsoleOptions": "openOnSessionStart",
	"launchBrowser": {
	"enabled": true,
	"args": "${auto-detect-url}",
	"windows": {
	"command": "cmd.exe",
	"args": "/C start ${auto-detect-url}"
	},
	"osx": {
	"command": "open"
	},
	"linux": {
	"command": "xdg-open"
	}
	},
	"env": {
	"ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development",
	"ASPNETCORE_URLS": "https://localhost:6001"
	},
	"sourceFileMap": {
	"/Views": "${workspaceFolder}/Views"
	}
	},
	{
	"name": ".NET Core Attach",
	"type": "coreclr",
	"request": "attach",
	"processId": "${command:pickProcess}"
	},
	]
	}

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