Thanks! I tried the most basic building command possible and it works well. Displaying the PDF on the right panel would be very nice but it's a start. For reference I used the following tasks.json:

   {
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "command": "texify",
    "isShellCommand": true,
    "args": ["-p","${file}"],
    "isBuildCommand": true,
    "showOutput": "always"
   }