C# for Visual Studio Code (powered by OmniSharp)

Master	Release

Welcome to the C# extension for Visual Studio Code! This preview provides the following features inside VS Code:

• Lightweight development tools for .NET Core.
• Great C# editing support, including Syntax Highlighting, IntelliSense, Go to Definition, Find All References, etc.
• Debugging support for .NET Core (CoreCLR). NOTE: Mono and Desktop CLR debugging is not supported.
• Support for project.json and csproj projects on Windows, macOS and Linux.

The C# extension is powered by OmniSharp.

Get Started Writing C# in VS Code

• Documentation
• Video Tutorial compiling with .NET Core

What's New in 1.6.0

• Better support for .NET Core .csproj projects, including .NET Core projects created with Visual Studio 2017 RC.
• Improved debugger performance and support for debugging on more Linux distros.
• Roslyn scripting support with CSX files.
• Lot's more!

See our change log for all of the updates.

Supported Operating Systems for Debugging

• Currently, the C# debugger supports the following operatings systems:

  • Windows (64-bit only)
  • macOS
  • Ubuntu 14.04 / Linux Mint 17 / Linux Mint 18 / Elementary OS 0.3
  • Ubuntu 16.04 / Elementary OS 0.4 / Arch / Zorin OS 12
  • Ubuntu 16.10
  • Debian 8.2
  • CentOS 7.1 / Oracle Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Fedora 23 / 24
  • OpenSUSE 13 / 42

Found a Bug?

Please file any issues at https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues.

Debugging

The C# extension now supports basic debugging capabilities! See http://aka.ms/vscclrdebugger for details.

Development

First install:

• Node.js (newer than 4.3.1)
• Npm (newer 2.14.12)

To run and develop do the following:

• Run npm i
• Run npm run compile
• Open in Visual Studio Code (code .)
• Optional: run tsc -w, make code changes (on Windows, try start node ".\node_modules\typescript\bin\tsc -w")
• Press F5 to debug

To test do the following: npm run test

License

The Microsoft C# extension is subject to these license terms. The source code to this extension is available on https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode and licensed under the MIT license.