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I am running ASP.NET Core application on Visual Studio Code on a mac. To run the app, I use dotnet run from the terminal.

Whenever I make changes in one of the C# files, I have to stop and restart the app by hitting ctrl+c first and dotnet run again.

I watched Pluralsight course of Scott Allen, where he uses Visual Studio and after an edit to any C# files, he just reloads the page and it shows the changes. I am wondering if I can do the same in Visual Studio Code.

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  • If you make HTML or CSS changes you just have to simply save and refresh page, however if you make c# code changes you need to recompile. Commented Nov 7, 2016 at 15:22

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I think that dotnet watch should work. See the documentation from the link as there are various options. Here I copied the order in which this should work.

  1. Add Microsoft.DotNet.Watcher.Tools to the tools section of the project.json file
  2. Run dotnet restore
  3. Execute with dotnet watch run
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That worked, thanks..are the steps same for Visual Studio as well?
@akshayKhot - you might be able to do CTRL+F5, in a full version of VS starts the process without attaching the debugger. I am not sure about VS Code but maybe its the same.
it works but it is very slow - like have to wait around 5 sec - any change to speed up?
Starting from .NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 the CLI tools like dotnet watch are now part of the SDK

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