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Well then, that makes VSCode one of the most useless pieces of software to be spewed out of redmond...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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No! Don't give up. It does run like an IDE in many ways. It has intellisense, error checking, a debugger with watch windows etc. I now work in VS Code much how I did in full .NET.
Here's what I would do just to get started and learn:
1) Download or create a project in regular Visual Studio using the template you want to use.
2) Copy that file to your Linux machine
3) Open VS Code and then open the directory where that project is
VS Code will analyze the type of project you are opening, suggest the plugins you need etc. You can now learn the VS Code terminal and other small things that are key to working in the non VS environment. They are simple and powerful once learned. Down the road when you want to create new projects you can use some scaffolding depending on the project you want to create. For Angular I use NPM. For webapi you can use this: Create a Web API with ASP.NET Core and Visual Studio Code | Microsoft Docs[^] The biggest differences are that it doesn't rely on proj/sln files and that you do these things via command prompt instead of graphical interfaces. Once you get a few commands down it is fantastic and powerful.
I started with VS Code for my Angular development but now am using it for my Web API dev too. After spending 15 years in the .NET IDE and VB6 before that it is nice to be able to do everything I need in a more lightweight and cross-platform environment!
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The whole point of this exercise is to get away from Windows completely. If I have to use Visual Studio to create the project, I may as well stay with Windows. And ya know, it's gonna take a crapload of effort to convince me that a commandline interface is better/easier than a GUI.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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(sarc)Then why does TV/movies makes sure that shell/cmd/terminal windows are visible whenever smart people are using computers?(/sarc)
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You could also ask why radar scopes make a noise when the sweep detects an object.  No radar scope I've ever seen does that (my rate was RadarMan in the Navy).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It does seem like a tremendous regression. I think many like it simply because it is cryptic: kind of a throwback to the "super sleuth decoder ring." I'm too old to try to be cool; I liked command line back in my UNIX administrator days, but that was a different lifetime. Remembering how to do mundane crap is what a computer is for, and I am tired.
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Werd
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's nice to see some senior devs actually valuing their time. Having had to deal with command-line stuff recently, it made my blood boil. Everytime a path is involved, that's 10 minutes of trial and error and debugging. Googling is usually no help because Linux people already assume you only use ASCI character paths with no UTF and absolutely no spaces. And you have to revert your slashes from Windows. But not all of them. Oh, and learn escape char combinations so you can put a letter in an argument.
Do I use " here or ' ? Do I need -c or --c ? Oh god, I need to pass 2 sub-parameters here, how do I do that... comma separated ok, but my parameters has a comma...
What, you though computers where tools to helps us? No, YOU must bend to your computer.
I could go on and on. This is the definition of a terrible experience, the terminal is not made for humans and there's no motivation to improve beyond the Unix model of the 60's.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: VS Code
If you haven't looked at Rider: Cross-platform .NET IDE by JetBrains I would definitely take a gander. An excellent product, IMO.
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As a daily user of a JetBrains IDE (Android Studio), I would definitely recommend staying away from anything from JetBrains.
The amount of utter jaw dropping moments in disregard for the UI I continue to have each weak is amazingly bad.
Like the probabilistic buttons, where there's a 5% chance the click won't register.
Or the massive GC breaks for 3-5 seconds while you're trying to write something or just scroll a file.
Or the ocasional hash mish-match in temp build files that most IDEs solve with a Clean Project, but not JetBrains' "I'll only clean stuff that never actually causes problems in projects".
I could go on, but I'd rather just call you a shill, good sir.
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I'm accessing the internet via a tethered connection so I have to wait until I get home (to avoid using up the data). 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yes... If you do it in the way documented on MS's site...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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VS Code is written in Electron[^] so it has no dependencies on the .NET platform.
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NOPE, not at all...
Code is just an editor, like sublime or Atom, nothing else.
You can use code to work on anything from JS/Node through to bash shell scripts, so you need to decide what plugins you want, based on the work your intending to do.
As for the run times, it's really easy.
Just go to
.NET Downloads for Linux, macOS, and Windows
Select your OS (Windows/Linux/Mac)
Click on "Install .NET Core SDK"
Select your distribution from the drop down, and then follow the instructions your given.
Once you install the package source and everything else you need, from that point on you only ever need to type
"dotnet new <projecttypehere>"
typing "dotnet new" on it's own and pressing return will list the project types you can use. You can also Nuget install new project types, to get things like pre-made templates for Angular, Aurelia, Webpack and much more.
Once you have a new project, you can then just open that folder in code and start to work on it.
Shawty
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VS Code is a standalone editor; it doesn't install .NET, it is not based on .NET. It's actually based on Electron[^], and was originally written as a competitor to Atom[^], which of course was written and released by the team at Github.
As you know, Microsoft acquired Github fairly recently - so now (more or less) they are supporting two different Electron-based cross-platform editors (Atom and VS Code). One or the other is likely to die or be merged into the other; my bet is on VS Code being the "winner".
VS Code as an editor - just like Atom - can be expanded upon using plug-ins and extensions. But right out of the box, it is geared toward code editing; it has "built-in" support for Git, for instance. But all of this can be extended and expanded to make the editor into virtually a full-fledged IDE. Most of the plug-ins, etc are similar to (or even the same) as the ones available for Atom - though there are a few out there that don't cross eco-systems. Even so, you can usually find one that'll work similar to the other, so if you have a favorite plug-in on Atom, switching to VS Code isn't too much of a headache.
So if both editors are so similar - why switch, or why use one over the other? Well - that's only a decision you can make for yourself, but there is one area where (I have found) VS Code shines over Atom: Time to startup. VS Code is simply the fastest. I am not sure why.
Basically, if I am editing a text file, I want it up as quickly as possible after clicking on the file to open it. With Atom, I was looking at several seconds; I never timed it, but it felt like an eternity. Once loaded, though, I never experienced any other issues, and opening further files was fast. It was just that initial startup.
With VS Code, though - you click on your file, and it is up almost instantly; maybe a 1-2 second lag at most.
But that's a really niche use-case; if you have the editor start up when you log in to your system, right off the bat, then it kinda negates the issue. I'm not always editing a file though, and so I don't have anything auto-start (at least at home - at work it's a different story).
As far as .NET development - if you need or want a cross-platform dev environment geared to that, then grab a copy of MonoDevelop[^].
Note that you won't be able to develop Windows apps on Linux (the API isn't there); what you can do is create GTK apps that are cross-platform for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can also (in theory) take a Visual Studio developed .NET app, and convert it to use GTK for the windowing interface, and more or less "port" it to the other two platforms (the reverse is likely true as well).
As an aside, the rest of the .NET open-source ecosystem can be found here:
.NET Foundation[^]
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Also, VSCode (for whatever reason) doesn't support text highlighting or intellisense for C# or C++ out of the box. You have to go get plugins for that. I'm using Microsoft's plugins and they work really well.
On the plus side, there are plugins for just about any language in common use. I have SQL, Swift, C#, C++, etc. installed. Also found a very good diff plugin.
You might want to take a look at this: Using .NET Core in Visual Studio Code[^] as a good starting point for both.
With the dotnet new <project_type> command, I always use the --output <folder> option because it creates the folder and then creates the new project in that folder. The documentation is here[^]
I've enjoyed using VSCode and .Net Core together on a Mac. It's getting better with each release (so far).
alan
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Wow, why so much VS Code hate (looking at many of the previous reply trees)?
First, yes, it's an IDE. It supports project management, editing, syntax sense, debugging and source control. Is there something else an IDE is supposed to do?
Second, it's lightweight. You add plugins for what you want to do. It doesn't download everything when you install it: you add the bits you want. It *does* suggest bits you might like.
The command window is pretty simple and comes with lots of help.
To get started, you *don't* have to start a project in Windows. That poster was making a helpful suggestion to accelerate familiarity. To get started, download it, create a folder, open the folder with VS Code, and start adding files. It's pretty simple.
I have to laugh at the people recommending Eclipse instead. Sorry, folks. Eclipse works, but it's a classic poorly managed open source project. It's a ball of sticky stuff with bits slapped on all over the place. I use it every week, have done for 10 years (most embedded systems use it as a base, because it's free), and shudder every time I open it. I think the team motto is "we're programmers, we don't need no stinkin' usability!".
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I am building a app (and a online site to go with) and need inputs from you guys regarding using authentication provided by google/FB/MS vs classic way of login (register users and maintain username/password). It's a side project and i am trying to reduce the development time in every possible way without compromising the quality of the app/website. would you guys will be willing to use a website where only way to authenticate is using either Google/FB/MS account ?
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One is that I don't have any of those accounts, and the main reason is that if an app forces me to log in using social media I suspect they really just want my personal data, my contact lists etc, that they're going to want to constantly bug me to share, to harasses my contacts etc etc.
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Yep. That is true. But I have created a dummy account just for authentication purpose. Not sure if others are also doing that. the only reason i am thing about that because it will save me some time and headache that comes with maintaining password.
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I have a spare account for places like those. I do face problems when I am using a computer where I have my main account logged in.
If I did not had spare account, I will not login because I wont read terms and conditions and I wont trust the site. Basically, when I browse a new site, the mode is guilty until proven innocent.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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The problem with rolling your own password database is that you have to do it right - encryption, security, etc. Note that in many jurisdictions, any database that contains personally-identifiable information requires extra precautions. Ignoring them can cost you big bucks/euros/...
Using FB/Google/etc. gets around some of this requirement, at the cost of adding to the already vast amount of information that they know about your clients (e.g. they know that your clients visit your website).
For mainstream sites, IMO most members of the public would be quite happy with authentication via FB/Google/etc. If, OTOH, you are building a site to host discussions about <your favorite conspiracy theory>, you may wish to reconsider.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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