Josh Naylor shows how you can use our new favorite code editor, Visual Studio Code, with Unity...
Integrating Unity and Visual Studio Code
Unity’s technical evangelist Josh Naylor explains how to integrate Microsoft’s IDE with the popular engine
[The following article was written by Unity technical evangelist Josh Naylor.]
It’s long been a pain point when developing a Unity game: having to use MonoDevelop as the IDE. Originally I never thought it was that bad, but after using Unity VS with Visual Studio on my Desktop Windows PC, I realized it really is much greener on the other side.
However, there’s one problem: I needed a Mac for work to support multiple platforms for demonstrations and to help developers with iOS games, and I didn’t fancy booting into parallels every time just to use Visual Studio for everyday development.
Other packages such as Sublime are great but they lack IntelliSense – auto-completion – which for me really speeds up development time, especially when coding/demoing live in front of 100 people. I don’t want to be stuck missing a capitalization of some random rigid body for someone to have to point it out.
For some reason, on the VS Code website it says it’s for node.js and asp.net development – nothing about C# or integration with Unity. Which led a lot of people to ask: “When will it be integrated with Unity?” Well, great news: it already is.
I posted a few screenshots the day it was released on Twitter and the Unity3D sub-reddit and had a lot of responses asking how to do it, so here how you get it running:
1. Open Visual Studio Code
You can use VS code as a text editor – just as you would Sublime, Notepad, Notepad++ – by simply opening a .cs file for quick and easy editing, but I want to set it up with my full solution....
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5. Make it default
Set Visual Studio Code as the default IDE in Unity....
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