How to set up Visual Studio Code for Unity 

I just love how much faster vs code loads, the themes, and how it has the file explorer open in it

OR ANYONE STARTING UNITY IN 2022, PLEASE DO THIS BEFORE WRITING ANY SCRIPTS: Unity and Visual Studio will sometimes have a compatibility issue where something called Intellisense does not work. Intellisense is your code completion, and much more. It should be fixed immediately. Step 1: Close Visual Studio Step 2: In Unity, go to Edit < Preferences < External Tools (left part of the Window) Step 3: In External Tools go to the part that says External Script Editor (this should be on which ever Visual Studio editor you are using (for me it defaulted to "Open by File Extension" Step 4: Make sure Generate all csproj files are checked, and Editor Attaching is checked Step 5: Open the C# script you were trying to open earlier. I copied it from mEmEMan as i was facing this problem

A quick reset of Omnisharp did the trick for me. Ctrl+Shift+P in VSC and select 'Omnisharp: Restart Omnisharp'.

Loved the tutorial. It's very concise. I'm dealing with an issue on my end though. I was hit with a couple errors in the output log so I decided to install the .NET framework like you recommended. I restarted everything and got hit with errors again. One of them asked me to get an older version of the .NET framework (4.7.1). If anyone knows what the issue is I'd appreciate the help.

the logs on vs code says, i need .net 4.7.1, visual code studio didnt even pick gameObject....

If you are still having problems, download the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Developer Pack, as this specific targeting framework is used by many versions of Unity: dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet-framework/net471 A recent update to the C# Omnisharp extension in VS Code required me to download .NET 6 (or newer) in order for my projects to load correctly in VS Code. The download page is here: dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet You may also need to restart your Windows computer to allow system environment variables to update. If all else fails, follow these steps: code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity#_prerequisites

Nice timing. I was about to lookup a tutorial regarding this.

It's showing me "Unhandled exception. System.BadImageFormatException: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (0x8007000B)" any idea how to fix this? I've tried looking on StackOverflow to no avail.

Nobody ever told me visual studio and visual studio code were different! Thanks. After 2 days of research, I found such a good vid and I'm finally able to do something. Definitely gonna leave a like. 😄

Great video as always. I use Visual Studio since it came as default, but I might change to VSCode since it is more lightweight.

10:58 I noticed that theres an italized code snippet auto-suggest. how do you turn that on (& off)?

This was exactly what I was looking for! Super helpful, thank you!

Hi thanks for the video. I followed the steps and my project loads correctly in vscode but intellisense still not working even after regenerating project files

Hi i have a problem i dont know why when i oppening ws code on the down right side there are write Some projects have truoble loading. Please review the output for more details And i dont now whats happend and how to fix that can u help please

i use visual studio 2022 so i just install the unity development workload and then change the code editor in unity to vs 2022

Thank you so much!!! My intellisense has not been working for weeks and I could not figure out why until wathcing this video.

THANK YOU this helped alot

Did you have to install Microsoft.Unity.Analyzers through NuGet? If so, could you explain how to do that please?

Today I learned VS and VS code are two different things... super helpful video, thanks!

I remember the days of Unity 5 when another editor was used. It was so long ago I forgot the name of the editor lol

thank you for this tutorial it helped a lot , I was having trouble switching Microsoft Visual Studios to Microsoft Visual code! The only issue I'm having as of right now is when I open the C# I'm getting a .NET Core SDK error of it not being able to be located, if there is any suggestions on what to do about that I'll appreciate it!

very quality setup video, covering alternatives and navigating to windows in simple but reliable ways while explaining whats going on compared to a point and click adventure through gui windows that some tutorials are

I followed all your steps, but VS code still refuses to do intellisense - for certain methods. E.g. it will recognize Input.GetKeyDown, but not the OnCollisionEnter method. Studio 2019 does it all perfectly.

Thank you so much I've been trying to figure this out for a VERY long time

When I check Package Manage, I notice that Visual Studio Code Editor is already installed in the project. However, when I go to Preferences and click the External Script Editor dropdown, it doesn't show Visual Studio Code Editor as an option. Does anyone know why this might be happening or how I could find the vs code editor?

Very well put together video. Easy to follow, worked like a charm. Thank you !!

thank you so much! This will make my game development be much quicker :)

Thank you

I've been following your videos for a few days now, sure am glad I found you. I'm so green on Unity a little bit better with VS but please answer a couple quick questions. As I'm coding Pacman your VS has the left side showing all the files etc in Unity, with your coding window split, I can split a window in VS but How do you get this left side menu? Also, since I'm halfway thru doing pacman by hand, but I'm getting some goofy errors and wanted to download and install your project code, and compare each for educational purposes.... If I do that what happens to project already started?

Thank you but i have a problem that it just gets the code that was in the script but when i try void OnCollisionEnter2D it just doesn't show up😢

#pro Perfectly executed How-To-Torial! You should make another vid called "How-To make How-To videos Tutorial"

SOLUTION: I followed this video, but I still coudn't quite get it to work. I had to look at the log and find out what version of .NET I was missing. In my case it was .Net SDK version 4.7.1. (Even though I had previously installed the most recent version of the .NET SDK). Hope this helps someone.

Currently trying to follow this, though can't get past the "External Script Editor" bit. When I click the drop down menu there, nothing shows up. Just shows "Open by file extension" and "browse". Any clue what I'm missing here??

Thank you so much for this video, you helped me a lot!!

Hey I ran into problems when following your tutorial. When I made a C# script to see if everything was working correctly it came up with warn and fail because I didn't have .Net so I installed the latest version .Net 7 and I was hoping it would fix the issues but it didn't and now it's saying "warn" or "fail." It says it failed t load my project file and I'm really confused I found a post on stack overflow about this same problem but they had no solutions.

Thank you so much now i can get to work on coding my game

My VCS Explorer doesn't show anything, only the actual code Im working on. I have no idea what Im doing wrong, please help??

you are a godsend 3rd time attempting unity and the first time i manadged to sync up coding, thank you

how did you know I was having trouble with this?? Thanks for the vid lol.

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Whats your extensions? It seems you have some intellicode that suggest you to write your next script by tabbing it Can you list your extensions?

After "powered by OmniSharp disappeared VS Code doesn't work properly with Unity :( is there way to fix it?

BUT, what about debug break-points? I couldn't get this working in VS Code recently and seems it might be broken?

I loved the video but I wanted to know if you could be so kind to share your UI configuration like, for instance, your font, font size, etc. By the way, I really appreciate your content and I instantly subbed! Keep it up.

Thanks for this helpful intro! for all the user that are seeing this video a year later like me ;) the new package has a blue icon and it does not say powered by omnisharp, however it works the exact same way as shown here. this is the same extension as show in the video: ms-dotnettools.csharp below the title C# Base language support for C# by microsoft, right now its v1.26.0 and in unity the package also has one .5 1 version higher :=)

What is the background music you're using, it's very mellow.

woww....i was in trouble until this ......THANKYOU

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bruh. i thought it was visual scripting. i just downloaded everything

Thank you so much for this video. It was very useful for my Unity setup with VS Code!

Yeah this is way over my head. I have all this and it's become a pain. Unity still doesn't see any of this stuff.

How I can install the package of visual studio code in unity older version

Can we use Visual Studios if we have it already installed or will it be way better for vs code.

You are an incredible human. This video was so clear and concise. Visual Studio Code is finally working how it was meant to and I'm so excited. Thank you :)

mine doesn't show the "generate .csproj files" 5:40

Thank you!! I was having problems with classes not showing up properly. Now it is working as I need. Cheers

do i need to install visual scripting?? from package manager

so your name is adam it is an arabic name so you speeck arabic right

It keeps failing to install no matter how many times I regenerate files 8:50

I dont know why but i dont have the visual studio code editor

How do you attach to the editor for breakpoints?

Thank u soo much. i was wondering y it didnt soft the sa for as well

Ctrl Shift P : Restart Omnisharp!

VS code is not coming in the preferences dropdown

Like for tNice tutorials helpful tutorial

th so gosh dang much i almost quit on this entirely

can you give me the link that is for 32 bit net

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Now that's what I call it a fixer guy

very very underestimated channel ever

When i try to open my code it gives me a warning and asks whether to trust current folder. What should i do?

i can,t find c# in my visual studio code

Thank you, it helped!

It worked for me, thank you

Thank you, this worked perfectly!

What about vs community?

My project failed to load in

can you please make a video on how to setup unity from start, i searched ur channel for unity installation tutor but only found this vid. You showed almost everything in this video thats grt✌🏻 but it could be better if you show it from start Unity Hub -> the licensing -> The Unity -> The Code Editor n all, Thanks🙂

.NET Framework builds of OmniSharp no longer ship with Mono or the MSBuild tooling. To ensure that the C# extension remains usable out of the box for .NET SDK projects, we have changed the default value of omnisharp.useModernNet to true. If you still need Unity or .NET Framework support, you can set omnisharp.useModernNet to false in your VS Code settings and restart OmniSharp.

Do I need to download unity on my chromebook to be able to edit scripts

THANK YOU!!!!! Oh my god I spent days trying to fix this issue and you solved it in minutes!

Oh hell yea this video fixed the Intellisense problem I was having! Thank you thank you!!!

My Solution File wasn't displaying in the bottom left. I had to download the .NET SDK to get it to work. It's really strange, because I've been using Visual Code for a few years without this problem, then it suddenly happened today. Thanks for the help!

Thx. I have bad internet and vs takes so long to download and VS code not and I followed the steps thx Edit: I couldn't do it some how

Thank you for the video due to this I am able to solve the intellisense problem with C# in VS code. I am searching for the solution for hours and I finally found it.

Thank you SO MUCH! I watched a game tutorial video and they skipped how to connect Unity with the coding program and stuff. Stuck there for a while until I found your video 😅

thank so much this help a lot

Thank you for this video. I kept seeing that I needed to change the selected editor externally. I assumed that had to be in the hub somewhere. wasted 20 min instead of finding your video.

Great advice! (One thing, maybe move the mic back or play with your mic settings. I had to turn the volume way down to avoid all the sticky mouth noises that were setting my mysophonia off.)

thank you so much, for the video, this fixed my intellisence issue. 👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Omg thanks for this tutorial I was trying to find tutorials like this for years and finally i found one

6:09 very important tip...

Thanks a lot, I had to follow till regenerate, then after a couple of failed tries I used the VS code to open a new folder before retrying open C# project from unity editor that's when intellisense started working.

thanks for the help I was stuck for so long without VS i thought I was just being dumb.

Thanks so much for tNice tutorials video, it helped so much!

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It's been two weeks...... I don't want to program any more.

thanks for this vid bruhh.. really helps me setting up🔥

I love you so much bro

Thank you sir