# How to properly create, activate, and resume, an environment in VSCode

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-properly-create-activate-and-resume-an-environment-in-vscode/48289
**Category:** VS Code
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**Created:** [October 13, 2020, 11:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-properly-create-activate-and-resume-an-environment-in-vscode/48289 "2020-10-13T11:12:46Z")
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### Author: ![mthelm85](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mthelm85/32/224164_2.png) [@mthelm85](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mthelm85)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-properly-create-activate-and-resume-an-environment-in-vscode/48289/7 "2021-08-05T14:06:22Z")

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UPDATE: I wrote [a simple little command line utility](https://github.com/mthelm85/jeeves) with Rust to take care of this for me. My new work flow looks like this:

Open PowerShell, then:

- `cd wherever/I/want/my/project`
- `jeeves ProjectName`
- `cd ProjectName`
- `code .`

Done!

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