Will Visual Studio Code replace MonoDevelop

@angrypenguin When I said "I'd never heard of this before" I was talking about VS Code. Also; whats it to you?

 

Open discussion which might introduce me to new ideas.

 

Microsoft product not working properly? What a surprise.

 

Eh who said is not working? Are you referring at VS Code? Works perfectly.

 

we use VS and it's sweet, 1 can even edit FBX in it...
i use it to update art assets in the main build so team and backers are informed of changes and progresses in slack

 

Yes, especially autocomplete.

 

VS Code autocomplete works. I don't use any other script in Unity. Just VS code and work. BUT be sure you have set workspace "files.exclude", else can take a while.

Is explained very nice here:
https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/runtimes/unity

 

@angrypenguin I have no answer to that. Those are just my thoughts. IMHO having five ways to do one thing is the enemy of simplicity and user friendliness (oddly enough it seems to have worked for Windows). Its also kind of pointless.

Yet I <3 Windows because its got the most games of any OS and I know it well.

 

The October 2015 VSCode update provides deeper customization options. Would this help with the bland coloring?
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates#_customization-adding-language-colorization-bracket-matching

 

Wow! That's an huge update. I don't have the time to test this now but I'm definitely interested in knowing if we finally get better syntax highlighting.

 

I just start trying this https://github.com/consulo/consulo-unity3d/wiki/1.-Setup-and-Usage and it's looking really good. Basically is a fork of IntelliJ with C# support and Unity integration, including debug.

 

I recently tried using 0.9. Much problems. See here:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/mac-os-eaten-by-unknown-process.363390/

I haven't really figured out how to do this. Do you know how to get this running?

 

On a whim I decided to use the VSCode 2.2 plugin by dotBunny and *boom* VSCode working brilliantly. FTW doesn't describe this well enough. It just works - not that MonoDevelop didn't work, it was just clunky as hell a lot of times.

 

Totally agree!
https://github.com/dotBunny/VSCode ... and VS Code is the winner (on Mac anyway, VS Community still has more functionality on Windows)!

 

@angrypenguin have you fixed the issue with Unexpected symbol `1E-05'? I had the same issues. The first was fixed by installing DNX, but the second is still presented.

 

I haven't really used it in ages, so no, I have not.

 

I've finally found the root cause of this issue with unexpected 1E-05 symbol and wrote solution here: https://github.com/dotBunny/VSCode/issues/43

Saying short, the problem was in source file PlaygroundParticlesC.cs in Particle Playground asset. OmniSharp was failed to parse following code:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. float mslt = minShurikenLifetime<.00001f?.00001f:minShurikenLifetime;
3.  

1E-05 was related to .00001f, so, I changed it to:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. float mslt = minShurikenLifetime < 0.00001f ? 0.00001f : minShurikenLifetime;
3.  

And it started to work, intelli sense enabled after it.

My working environment:
VS Code, VS Code plugin for Unity3D https://github.com/dotBunny/VSCode, mono from homebrew, DNX from homebrew.
Install instructions for DNX are here https://github.com/aspnet/homebrew-dnx, but I executed the last upgrade command from the instructions with option -u to installed the latest unstable development version of DNX for mono runtime (see dnvm help).

Code (csharp):

1. dnvm upgrade -u

 

Just spied a tutorial covering debugging Unity scripts with VS Code. I've largely forgotten what was covered in this thread so I don't know if this is useful to anyone or not.

http://darkgenesis.zenithmoon.com/debugging-unity-3d-with-vscode/

 

Hello,
using OSX & Visual Code and Intellisense does not work (Shows 'Loading...' for 10 seconds or longer before showing results). Neither does it show references.

Anyone else?

I have it working on another mac with same project, so it's not that project is too big or other ideas I saw at omnisharp github. I don't see any difference between the computers.

I spent 20+hours trying to make it work (removing/updating components - mono, omnisharp, dnx, .net...), and it's very frustrating, as Microsoft suggested integration with Unity.

 

I've downloaded the unity beta 5.5, which includes visual studio code support natively. To get it working was a matter of going into preferences and navigating my applications directory (on OS x) for vsc.

Visual studio code then needs the legacy c sharp plugin. The up to date one explicitly states that omnidevelop mono and unity is unsupported for the time being.

With that installed, I'm using Code like a pro. No problems so far. It auto completes everything for me without needing me to press any extra keys. Unity automatically setup my environment for me, including ignored files and folders.

 

That is excellent news, because that's exactly the scenario that had me interested in VSC.

 

One day we will get our .Net profile upgrade. Of course by then .Net will have move on, so we will always have to choose legacy.

 

Never was that impressed with vsc, I'm still running a VM just so I can use visual studio proper. But an looking forward to the JetBrains c# ide getting more mature as a alternative to that.

 

Isn't that too slow? VS is slow even on a Windows machine, so I'd imagine running it on a VM is big pain?

 

Runs fine for me, VS has a long startup time, but once started and you have a solution loaded it is snappy and VS + Resharper and a good vim plugin make it worth it for me.

 

From yesterday's announcement and release of VS '15' Preview 5, it looks like they've cut the startup time in half by deferring plugin loads to on-demand plus a few extra tweaks.