These tasks can be accomplished using the default text editors for Windows or Mac; however, if you’re trying to create complex software or websites, a more advanced text editor can make the process much easier. Visual Studio Code is a completely different product when compared to Visual Studio, with emphasis in just writing the code instead of dealing with debugging, compiling, testing, refactoring, and all the other things that make Visual Studio great (and memory consuming). We want VS Code to format our code using Prettier after saving a file. Press CMD +, if you’re on a Mac to open your VS Code Workspace Settings then add the following: // Format a file on save.

Unity is a powerful solution to create games for a multitude of platforms, from mobiles to consoles, desktop and web games. Since Unity 5.2, Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Tools for Unity have been the default experience on Windows.

I'm down here at the BUILD Conference in San Francisco and Microsoft has just launched Visual Studio Code - a code-optimized editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux and a new member of the Visual Studio Family.

When we released Visual Studio for Mac last year, Unity was among the first scenarios we supported out of the box. I’m happy to share that Unity will include Visual Studio for Mac as the default for macOS developers starting with version 2018.1.

This means that everyone will be able to utilize the benefits of the .NET 4.6 scripting runtime upgrade in Unity (currently an experimental feature) , including all the goodies of C# 6.0 and access to the Microsoft Azure SDK to add powerful cloud services to your games. This is all in addition to the existing one-click debugging, customized solution pad, IntelliSense autocompletion, and many more productivity features.

Check out my post “Unity game development with Visual Studio for Mac” for more information on all that Visual Studio for Mac has to offer for Unity developers, or watch the video below on how Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac boost your development productivity.

You can also read Unity’s announcement for more details.

To get started today, download Visual Studio for Mac and set it as the default editor in Unity. Visual Studio Community for Mac is free to use for students, open-source and individual developers, as well as small teams. Check out the license terms for more information.

As always, let us know what you think in the comments below.

Jb Evain, Principal Software Engineer Manager
@jbevain

Jb runs the Visual Studio Tools for Unity experience He has a passion for developer tools and programming languages, and has been working in developer technologies for over a decade.

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Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity). Begin your journey with VS Code with these introductory videos.

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Node.js - This tutorial gets you quickly running and debugging a Node.js web app.

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Azure - VS Code is great for deploying your web applications to the cloud.

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Keyboard Shortcut Reference Sheet - Learn the commonly used keyboard shortcuts.

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