C Programming Visual Studio Code

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This topic applies to installation of Visual Studio on Windows. Visual Studio Code is a lightweight, cross-platform development environment that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. The Microsoft C/C for Visual Studio Code extension supports IntelliSense, debugging, code formatting, auto-completion. Visual Studio for Mac doesn't support Microsoft C, but does support.NET. I found out that I needed to download a C compiler to run C programs on VS-Code, so I downloaded Visual Studio with C from the Microsoft website, which basically installed Visual Studio 2019. The heading on the link said 'Develop C and C applications', so I figured it would at least let me program in C. Learning to code is intimidating, so set yourself up for success with a tool built for you. Visual Studio Code is a free coding editor that helps you start coding quickly. Use it to code in any programming language, without switching editors. Visual Studio Code has support for many languages, including Python, Java, C, JavaScript, and more.

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Create a C# Project with Visual Studio Code

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In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a C# project and run it in Visual Studio Code.

There are three pre-requisites before you can actually get started with this tutorial.

  1. Install Visual Studio Code.
  2. Install .Net Core.
  3. Install C# plugin for Visual Studio Code.

Once all the above requirements are met, we can proceed with the following steps to create a C# project and run it in Visual Studio Code.

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1. Open Visual Studio Code

Start Visual Studio Code and you see a Welcome page. Click on Open folder... link under Start section or click on Explorer present in the left panel and click on Open Folder button.

2. Visual Studio Code – Create C# Project – Open Folder

Navigate to the folder in which you would like create project and create a new folder which will be your project. In this tutorial, we will create a C# project named HelloWorld. After you create the folder, click on Select Folder button.

3. Visual Studio Code – C# – Terminal

The project is created and the same appears under EXPLORER panel. Now we need to open a new terminal to run some commands to initialize our project and get all the dependencies. Under the Terminal menu, click on New Terminal.

Terminal – dotnet new console

Run the command dotnet new console in the terminal. It will create the files ProjectName.csproj where ProjectName is the name of the folder we created for this project, Program.cs, and the dependencies in obj folder.

Program.cs contains code to print Hello World to print to the console. In the Output section, it is logged that all the required C# dependencies are installed.

4. Terminal – dotnet run

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Now, we run the project by running the command dotnet run in the terminal.

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The project is run and the string is output to the console.

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Execute C Program In Visual Studio Code

In this C# Tutorial, We have successfully created the C# project in Visual Studio Code editor.