Visual studio code auto-complete

Question

I have just downloaded unity and saw that now it supports Visual studio code, I downloaded it and made it the default editor.

After trying to edit a script, it prompted me to download c# extension and I did, but there is no auto-complete for unity functions. How can I get that? I'm on Mac. Any help is appreciated.

Solution 1

Maybe too late, but for future comers ...

There is an extension now for visual studio code called MonoBehaviour Snippets by Rachod Petchpho.

Press Ctrl+shift+x in the IDE to open extensions panel then search for MonoBehaviour Snippets, install and reload the IDE, now you will find all the autocomplete for the function names and objects just like MonoDevelop.

Solution 2

I had the same situation and I bang my head to the wall for days. There was no solution on the net as there are few people using Unity on linux with Visual Studio Code. I finally removed mono and went to their site and downloaded the Visual Studio build (even though we use Visual Studio Code). Then volaaa. Auto complete and suggestions related to Unity functions were there. Of course after installing the necessary extensions.

https://www.mono-project.com/download/vs/

Solution 3

I had the same problem with Unity + VS Code combo.

I have found an extension called Unity CodeSnippets

I highly recommend to download it. This is much better than any of other snippets collection for VSCode.

Solution 4

Intellisense (Autocompletion) is a pure workflow of .Net Environment. So, you need to have .Net 'Developer pack' (not Runtime) installed on your system as it installs all three necessary components below:

1. .Net framework
2. .Net Target pack
3. .net SDK

reference link: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/visual-studio-sdks

It is directly installed to a system admin-accessible path, so no need setting it up. Now, you have to tell VS Code which .Net version to use (whichever you have installed). Your Unity project will have these two files in the root directory:

1. Assembly-CSharp.cs
2. Assembly-CSharp-Editor.cs

In these both files search for line (probably 16):

<TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.8</TargetFrameworkVersion>

Edit version that you had just installed (I had 4.8). Then reopen VS Code. Now everything should work fine.

Solution 5

https://forum.unity.com/threads/cant-get-vscode-to-work-properly-with-unity.538224/

there are people that found a workaround. unityoracle user said: "This issue is that Unity Editor expects the file used to launch VSCode to have a specific name. " and: "Specifically, creating a symlink named "code" that opens VSCode fixed this issue"

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Comments

[Abdou023]

Thanks, but it doesn't seem like unity actually supports VSC or even has an official extension for it. For now I will just stick with Mono.

[Chris Hawkes]

Awesome project in place of a similar that automatically injected massive commenting everywhere. This is a great tool! thank you for sharing!

[Veda]

Worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04

[Sunny Chow]

it helps in my Mac too

[Daniel Memije]

Worked on Fedora 31

[Andrei]

What helped from there was Assets -> Open C# project. I also installed Mono (also a recommendation there)

[David Hansen]

This worked for me, but I also had to go to Edit > Preferences > External Tools in Unity and set the external script editor to Visual Studio Code, then I clicked "regenerate project files" to get Assembly-CSharp.csproj to show up in my project folder.