Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a popular tool for building and editing source code. It can also debug and complies the program. Moreover, VS Code is a free and lightweight tool, integrating many useful extensions in software programming. Visual Studio Code; C/C extension from Microsoft.

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The C/C++ extension adds language support for C/C++ to Visual Studio Code, including features such as IntelliSense and debugging.

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Offline installation

The extension has platform-specific binary dependencies, therefore installation via the Marketplace requires an Internet connection in order to download additional dependencies. If you are working on a computer that does not have access to the Internet or is behind a strict firewall, you may need to use our platform-specific packages and install them by running VS Code's 'Install from VSIX...' command. These 'offline' packages are available at: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools/releases.

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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

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This extension collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Collection of telemetry is controlled via the same setting provided by Visual Studio Code: 'telemetry.enableTelemetry'. Read our privacy statement to learn more.

Create a C# Project with Visual Studio Code

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.

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.

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4. Terminal – dotnet run

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.

Summary

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