How to reload your VSCode Window

Sebastian Gräf included in Today I learned (TIL)

Friday, Jan 7, 2022 114 words One minute

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Today I learned how to reload/restart my window in Visual Studio Code.

This is especially helpful if you want to restart Visual Studio and leave all your current terminals open.

Open the command palette (Ctrl + Shift + P) and execute the command >Reload Window.

/how-to-reload-vscode-window/reload-window-vscode.png — **Reload Window**

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However, it is usually not enough to make newly added environment variables available in your new terminal sessions - this still requires a complete restart of Visual Studio Code.

This, by the way, reloads the path variables in the specific terminal instance without restarting VSCode.

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$env:Path = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","Machine") + ";" + [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","User")

But I think restarting VSCode is way more faster than typing this command.