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Generate definitions or declarations in vscode

Did you spend a lot of time typing out lists of arguments or copying and pasting them while defining functions that have already been declared in a header file, or while declaring functions that have already been defined in a cpp file? The cpp extension in Visual Studio Code could automatically generate a skeleton definition/declaration if it is missing for a function.

Functions will be marked with three dots if definition/declaration is missing. Click Quick Fix... or press Ctrl + . to bring up fix context menu. Then you can create a skeleton of the missing definition or declaration.

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The generated cpp file looks like:

#include "program_manager_server.hpp"

uint32_t com::bshg::domain::cleaningrobot::ProgramManager1::SetCleanAll()
{
  return 0;
}

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