Just a one-phrase background, I have more than 30 years of programming experience, and started programming - there were no source code editors at that time - in Applesoft BASIC's Command Line and saving my code in a tape recorder :DĪnd, just a last word before we begin, if you are a novice programmer (or even a good programmer, but new to MQL5)I strongly recommend to you to stick with Metaeditorfor a while until you have enough comfort and experience to search for a better IDE. I think that I accomplished that with VSC. One of the main concerns I had was to have the ability to get the compiling results within the IDE in some way, so I don't ever have to switch back and forth between VSC and Metaeditor to get my things done and ready to run. When I started to look around my plan was to switch completely from Metaeditor to a 3rd party solution. Wa_cq_url: '/content/I will not discuss here what was my approach to finally choose VSC as my official MQL5 IDE, the goal of this post is to present a complete guide for those of you who want to experiment a better IDE and eliminating some feature and productivity limitations presented by Metaeditor, that in my personal programming experience made me search for a better alternative. Wa_audience: 'emtaudience:business/btssbusinesstechnologysolutionspecialist/developer/softwaredeveloper', Wa_english_title: 'Build and Run a Sample Project Using Visual Studio Code', Wa_curated: 'curated:donotuseinexternalfilters/productdocumentation', Wa_emtoperatingsystem: 'emtoperatingsystem:linux', Wa_emttechnology: 'emttechnology:inteltechnologies/oneapi', Wa_rsoftware: 'rsoftware:inteloneapitoolkits/inteloneapibasetoolkit,rsoftware:componentsproducts/inteloneapidpcccompiler', Wa_emtprogramminglanguage: 'emtprogramminglanguage:cc/dataparallelcdpc,emtprogramminglanguage:cc,emtprogramminglanguage:sycl',

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