.NET Battery Pack VS Code Extension

.NET Battery Pack closes gaps between popular .NET extensions, upgrading your Resharper, C# Dev Kit, and DotRush experience for Visual Studio Code. It brings advanced semantic snippets, surround-with refactorings, and NuGet package management to your workflow.

Features

• Semantic Snippets for C#

  • Context-aware code completions for C# files powered by the DotRush Language Server

  • Only shows snippet completions, filtering out other types

  • Automatically disables built-in C# snippets to avoid duplication

  • Warning > Requires DotRush extension to be installed, but not enabled. DotRush Language Server provides the semantic snippets, but the extension itself must remain disabled to avoid conflicts with C# Dev Kit and other extensions.

  • Enabled by default only when C# Dev Kit is active and DotRush is installed but disabled

• Surround With Refactorings

  • Adds "Surround With" code actions for C# (right-click or lightbulb menu)

  • Supports: if, if/else, for, for reverse, foreach, try/catch, try/finally, try/catch/finally, while, using, lock

  • "More..." menu for additional surround options

  • Works on selected code or current line

  • Enabled only when C# Dev Kit is not enabled

• NuGet Package Commands

  • Add, update, or remove NuGet packages from projects or solutions

  • Search for packages (optionally include prerelease)

  • Reverse NuGet Package Search - Find packages containing a specific type

    • Works for both standard C# errors (CS0246) and ReSharper diagnostics ("Cannot resolve symbol")

  • Select version to install or update

  • Multi-project/solution support

  • Toggle inclusion of prerelease packages

  • Enabled by default for all .NET projects

Commands

• .NET Battery Pack: Reload Workspace Reloads the workspace for semantic snippet updates.

• .NET Battery Pack: Show Surround Options Opens a menu to select a surround-with snippet.

• .NET Battery Pack: Apply Surround Snippet Applies a selected surround-with snippet to the current selection.

• NuGet: Add Package Search for and add a NuGet package to selected projects/solutions.

• NuGet: Update Package Update a NuGet package to a selected version in your projects/solutions.

• NuGet: Remove Package Remove a NuGet package from selected projects/solutions.

• NuGet: Toggle Prerelease Packages Toggle whether prerelease NuGet packages are included in search results.

• Find Type on NuGet.org (Context Menu) Available as a context menu option when CS0246 "The type or namespace could not be found" errors occur, or when ReSharper reports "Cannot resolve symbol". Searches for NuGet packages containing the specified type and allows installation of the selected package.

All commands are available from the Command Palette.

Example Usage

Surround With Example:

Select code and choose "Surround With" → "if statement":

Console.WriteLine("Hello");

becomes

if (true)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Hello");
}

NuGet Add Example:

• Run NuGet: Add Package
• Search for Newtonsoft.Json
• Select version
• Package is added to your project or solution

Reverse NuGet Search Example:

When you have a CS0246 error for an unknown type like ILogger:

• Right-click on the error or use the lightbulb quick fix
• Select "Find 'ILogger' on NuGet.org"
• Choose from the top 10 matching packages (e.g., Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions)
• Package is automatically installed to your project

Configuration

• dotnetBatteryPack.semanticSnippets.enabled Enable semantic snippets for C# files (default: true)

• dotnetBatteryPack.semanticSnippets.disableWhenExtensions List of extension IDs that, if enabled, will disable semantic snippets (default: ["nromanov.dotrush", "JetBrains.resharper-code"])

• dotnetBatteryPack.surroundWith.enabled Enable surround with code actions for C# files (default: true)

• dotnetBatteryPack.surroundWith.disableWhenExtensions List of extension IDs that, if enabled, will disable surround with features (default: ["ms-dotnettools.csharp", "ms-dotnettools.csdevkit"])

• dotnetBatteryPack.nugetCommands.enabled Enable NuGet commands (add, update, remove) for .NET projects (default: true)

• dotnetBatteryPack.nugetCommands.includePrerelease Include prerelease NuGet packages in search results (default: false)

Getting Started

1. Install the extension from the VS Code Marketplace
2. Ensure the DotRush extension is installed (but not enabled) for semantic snippet support
3. Use the provided commands from the Command Palette or context menus

Release Notes

See CHANGELOG.md for details.