Awesome DotNetCore Pack

A collection of useful, stable and best rated dotnetcore/C# extensions, which build a productive IDE. If you are also an angular/typescript developer check out the Awesome Angular Pack, which reuses extensions that offer support for both environments.

C# and DotNetCore

• C# for Visual Studio Code (powered by OmniSharp)

• C# Extensions This VSCode extension provides extensions to the IDE that will hopefully speed up your development workflow.

• C# Snippets

• Super Sharp (C# extensions) Provides some missing refactoring features for C#

• Paste JSON as Code

• Dotnet Core Essentials Create, debug, run and publish .Net core/standard applications

• Essential ASP.NET Core Snippets High quality Code Snippets that boost your ASP.NET Core development productivity

Code formatting and comments

• EditorConfig This plugin attempts to override user/workspace settings with settings found in .editorconfig files. No additional or vscode-specific files are required. As with any EditorConfig plugin, if root=true is not specified, EditorConfig will continue to look for an .editorconfig file outside of the project.

• XML Documentation Comments Support for Visual Studio Code Generate XML documentation comments for Visual Studio Code.

Dev Tools

• IL Viewer for Visual Studio Code IL (Intermediate Language) Viewer for Visual Studio Code allows you to rapidly inspect the IL output of any given C# file.

• .NET Core Test Explorer Test Explorer for .NET Core

• GitLens GitLens supercharges the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more.

• Path Intellisense Visual Studio Code plugin that autocompletes filenames.

• Todo Tree Show TODO, FIXME, etc. comment tags in a tree view

• Copy text Offers more copy options: Copies text without syntax highlighting, optionally adds metainfo like document name and date.

• Online help Offers context sensitive online help.

Recommended extensions (not included)

• MSSQL If you are using the ms sql server.

• If you come from VS development, the Visual Studio Keymap for Visual Studio Code might be interesting.

• Studio Icons Featuring official icons from the Visual Studio Image Library. These icons have been color optimized to work well for dark, light, and high contrast themes.

Settings Tipps

• If you do not like vs code telemetry set:

"telemetry.enableTelemetry": false

• If you do not need 'open editors' and like to use the space for your project files:

"explorer.openEditors.visible": 0

• Auto save on leaving the editor:

"files.autoSave": "onFocusChange"

• Enhanced minimap performance by disabling render characters in minimap:

"editor.minimap.renderCharacters": false