Official Microsoft previews Unity extension for Visual Studio Code

This worked for me, thanks! I had to manually add the "dotnet.defaultSolution" key to .vscode/settings.json. Regenerate Project Files in Unity settings didn't include it for some reason.

 

Replace the legacy configuration entry with this one:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.  {
3.             "name": "Attach to Unity",
4.             "type": "vstuc",
5.             "request": "attach"
6.  }
7.  

And you should be good. 'vstuc' type is the important change, 'unity' was the type used by the legacy Unity debugger, 'vstuc' is used for the new Microsoft' one.

When we generate project files, we create this launch.json with proper settings, but if the file exists we are doing nothing for now. We are thinking of auto-fixing legacy configurations and other incompatible settings in the next VS Editor package.

 

Fantastic! That worked.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong as the MS licencing options can be a bit awkward to navigate beyond the 2 monthly subscriptions.

The C# Dev Kit for VS Code is not actually included in the Professional and Enterprise monthly subscription but is only included in the 'Standard + GitHub Enterprise' subscriptions which cost a lot more (I think ~£1400/£6000 a year for pro/enterprise).

So if you fall into the category of needing a pro licence or more it would be way cheaper to use Visual Studio with a monthly sub rather than Visual Code + Official Unity Plugin? Which seems backwards.

 

So I've been using the debugger and it's been wonderful being able to Step Into and Watch variables again. However starting about 2 days ago, the time it takes for Unity to reload assemblies and compile code when the debugger is activated is really long. Yesterday I noticed all the Microsoft Visual Code extensions had updates waiting so I updated them but that hasn't changed anything. What should I be looking at?

 

Hi!

Perhaps you should double-check your breakpoints. If you keep advanced ones like function breakpoints, exception breakpoints or breakpoints with conditions, we have to disable specific optimizations (like type load filtering) or use a lot of evaluations that can impact the global performance.

It is also possible that your code started throwing a lot of exceptions and this is known to kill the performance especially when debugging. For that you can use an exception breakpoint to find the culprit.

 

Fantastic! I clicked "Clear all breakpoints" and then only added 1 breakpoint. Hit the debug > button, hit Play in Unity and it all started right up within 2 seconds.

 

This is awesome!!! Thank you so much! Now I don't need a Rider subscription and can use vscode for everything!

 

Do I really need to sign in with Microsoft to use the C# dev kit?

 

It has a licensing model that requires it.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/csharp/cs-dev-kit-faq#_who-can-use-c-dev-kit

 

Nice, after I created a variable, it suggested the next one.

 

But it doesn't know Vector2...

 

I'm really enjoying using vscode on my project with Copilot -- it's saved me much typing.

One slowdown is that my project is a multi-root project, and I like to refer to my other files while i'm working in Unity. I have a workspace file in my root unity project, but when I double click a c# script, Unity opens the folder, and not the workspace.

Is it possible for me to make it so that Unity will open a particular workspace file instead of the project folder when I double click a C# script? Is there a way for me to set default workspace settings in vscode so that if it opens a folder it automatically opens the workspace?

It presents another issue, where I have to copy my workspace settings between the folder and my workspace file. For example, I use conventional commits extension, and I have duplicated default scopes in both the workspace and .vscode/settings.json files.

 

Hi @jasonboukheir !

This is tracked here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/378

This is something we are going to investigate. As a temporary workaround you can create symbolic links (using mklink on windows) in your Packages folder instead of linking your external packages as file entries in your manifest.json.

 

Well, it seems that rebooting was necessary. Today, it knows Vector2.

 

So as somebody who prefers Visual Studio Code over Visual Studio Professional and who is an "enterprise" user according to Microsoft's license terms I am now forced to buy a license for Visual Studio Professional to use this new "Unity" extension from Microsoft for Visual Studio Code? Like, seriously?!

To be honest I currently am really frustrated about the way this is going. So far .NET and C# and Visual Studio Code had been a joy to work with and were great to be recommended to others because of their open source origin and their permissive licenses. This new licensing terms for the new closed source extensions are complicated and confusing and basically try to shove "enterprise" users over to the full-but-expensive(-and-bloated) Visual Studio Professional.

 

After the Visual Studio for Mac announcement I have decided to try out the code editor before turning to Rider.

Is there a list of usable and nice to have extensions to install?

...also can someone point me to a good, and recent, tutorial using it with Unity3d and, what I think, is the recent additions?

 

These 4 are my favourites (besides whatever programming language/project related plugin I use, depending on what I'm working on)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=usernamehw.errorlens
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=aaron-bond.better-comments
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alefragnani.Bookmarks
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.hexeditor

 

It's just coding. I'm not sure what tutorials you need. Your coding IDE should:
- highlight syntax
- detect typos and errors
- autocomplete is useful
- allow right-clicking to view Definitions (eg: You right click on a function name in your code, select "Go To Definition" and it should show you/take you to that function. Same for variables and other definitions.
- Rename Symbol is how to rename a var or function such that it changes EVERYWHERE in your project code files.
- and of course a working debugger

Extensions:
- Unity (from Microsoft)
- Intellicode for C# Dev Kit
- C# Dev Kit
- C#
- .Net Runtime Install Tool

And then here's one I installed because I got used to this feature when I used to code Actionscript in Flash :
Duplicate selection or line by Greg Bacchus
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=geeebe.duplicate
You CTRL-D and it duplicates the line of code or selection. Very useful shortcut.

 

Now I have used VSC or a few days and I must say that I like it. Will also test Rider but as I feel now it must be quite better if I should use it. However, I have never used rider so maybe it is.

 

I just experienced some problems with autocomplete. It should be said somewhere that for VS Code autocompletion to work properly, the Unity package "Test Framework" must be installed in the project. I didn't get any warning of any kind when I deinstalled it. Lesson learnt.

 

Indeed, Test Framework is a dependency of the VS Editor Package:



I believe it was possible to remove dependencies with previous Unity version (it is clearly an issue), but I just tested with 2022.3.f1 and you cannot do that anymore -hopefully-.

 

Hopefully. I'm using version 2021.3.

 

I will go for VSC at this point. It is really good, and free.

 

Welcome!

 

Is anyone aware of an extension that automatically format the code when you add a {?

Example: I put an if statement in front of a code line and remove the } that is automatically added and place it on the line after the code line. I would like VSC to format so the code line, or whatever is in-between the {} is tabbed to the correct position.