C# for Visual Studio Code (powered by OmniSharp)

Master	Release

Welcome to the C# extension for Visual Studio Code! This extension 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 debugging is not supported. Desktop CLR debugging has limited support.
• 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 1.15.0

• Debugger support for Source Link and Symbol Servers
• Added support for downloading and launching prerelease versions of the OmniSharp server
• Improved the status bar display for OmniSharp Server and selected project information
• Added CodeLens for running and debugging all tests in a test class
• Performance improvements when OmniSharp scans for projects
• Improvements for projects containing XAML files
• Many other bug fixes!

See our change log for more detail.

Supported Operating Systems for Debugging

• Currently, the C# debugger officially supports the following operating systems:

  • X64 operating systems:
    • Windows 7 SP1 and newer
    • macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and newer
    • Linux: see .NET Core documentation for the list of supported distributions. Note that other Linux distributions will likely work as well as long as they include glibc and OpenSSL.
  • ARM operating systems:
    • Linux is supported as a remote debugging target

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 (8.11.1 or later)
• Npm (5.6.0 or later)

To run and develop do the following:

• Run npm i
• Run npm run compile
• Open in Visual Studio Code (code .)
• Optional: run npm run watch, make code changes
• Press F5 to debug

To test do the following: npm run test or F5 in VS Code with the "Launch Tests" debug configuration.

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.