Can I use Visual Studio with Unity?

Question

I've been checking out Unity and it looks quite interesting.

In particular after reading you can use C# as the scripting language, I am left wondering if there is some sort of Visual Studio integration to leverage IntelliSense and all that jazz built into VS.

Solution 1

Unity has a wiki page explaining how to do this. It seems that the latest version of Unity should already allow you to create a Visual Studio project (if you're running Windows). However, it seems only VS 2008 is supported natively. You can follow this workaround to get it to work with VS2010 (except VS2010 Express Edition) to some degree.

Solution 2

Unity exports a VS 2008 project. I built a VS 2010 exporter so you can avoid fighting with the upgrade wizard. http://u3d.as/2gR

Solution 3

You can check UnityVS from SyntaxTree. With this extension you can code & debug Unity 3D games using VisualStudio

http://unityvs.com/

Disclaimer: both Sébastien and I are working on UnityVS

Comments

[kmote]

here's some recent documentation from the Unity site: docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/…

[JohnIdol]

+1 thanks for this - do you know if you can use the .NET libraries in such a visual studio project?

[keyboardP]

@JohnIdol - Unity is based on Mono, so it should support most libraries that Mono supports. There's a good post here on the differences: answers.unity3d.com/questions/13247/…

[Jason King]

I looked on your website... do you have an ETA for trial runs? Also does it allow remote debugging of Android?