Commands

You can access the following commands from the Visual Studio Code command pallet, typically accessed by pressing ctrl + shift + p and typing the command name you'd like to use from the table below.

Name	Description
ROS: Create Catkin Package	Create a catkin package. You can right click on a folder in the explorer to create it in a specific location.
ROS: Create Terminal	Create a terminal with the ROS environment.
ROS: Show Status	Open a detail view showing ROS core runtime status.
ROS: Start	Start ROS core.
ROS: Stop	Terminate ROS core.
ROS: Update C++ Properties	Update the C++ IntelliSense configuration to include ROS and your ROS components.
ROS: Update Python Path	Update the Python IntelliSense configuration to include ROS.
ROS: Preview URDF	Preview URDF and Xacro files. The display will update after the root URDF changes are saved.
ROS: Install ROS Dependencies for this workspace using rosdep	Shortcut for rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y.