First, one needs to install the C# Extension for Visual Studio Code to get C# support. I then created an empty directory using Visual Studio Code's Terminal window and typed 'dotnet new' and 'dotnet restore'. This created a sample Hello World console application that I used as the basis for my.NET Core app. The Terminal window provides you with a command line prompt - you can type. Choose the 'C/C++ for Visual Studio Code' extension and click 'Install'.
At its virtual event today, Microsoft announced the initial public preview of Visual Studio 2019 — you can download it now for. Separately,.NET Core 2.2 has hit and.NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 is also today. Microsoft launched in March 2017 and in May 2017 and then released seven subsequent updates to further improve their performance. That was the “most popular Visual Studio release ever,” but in June the company announced. As before, Visual Studio 2019 previews will install side by side with Visual Studio 2017, which is great for trying out new functionality without messing with your production workflow. Visual Studio 2019 also won’t require a major operating system upgrade, Microsoft promised.
Visual Studio 2017 worked on Windows Server 2012 R2 (and later), Windows 7 (and later), and Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11 (and later). New features Visual Studio 2019 brings numerous productivity improvements, enhanced collaboration, and faster tooling, Microsoft promised today. The initial public preview includes a new start window experience to get developers into their code faster, increased coding space, a new search experience, more refactoring capabilities, smarter debugging, AI-powered assistance with IntelliCode, and built-in access to Visual Studio Live Share.
The new start window on launch is designed to work better with today’s Git repositories, including local repos, Git repos on GitHub, and Azure Repos. Git aside, you can still open a project or a solution or create a new one of either. Visual Studio’s UI and UX have also received subtle changes, such as a new product icon, a cleaner blue theme, and a more compact title and menu bar. There’s also a new search experience that replaces the Quick Launch box.
It lets you find settings and commands and install options, and it even supports fuzzy string searching. Visual Studio 2019 improves the code maintainability and consistency experiences with new refactoring capabilities — such as changing for-loops to LINQ queries and converting tuples to named-structs.
There’s also a new document health indicator and code clean-up functionality. As for debugging, stepping performance is improved and search capabilities have been added to the Autos, Locals, and Watch windows. You can also expect improvements to the Snapshot Debugger to target Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS), and better performance when debugging large C projects, thanks to an out-of-process 64-bit debugger. IntelliCode and Live Share At its Build 2018 developers conference in May, Microsoft previewed. The former uses AI to offer intelligent suggestions that improve code quality and productivity, and the latter lets developers collaborate in real time with team members who can edit and debug directly from Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
Visual Studio IntelliCode is getting custom models and expanded language support. Custom models further improve the AI-enhanced IntelliSense, giving developers personalized recommendations based on the patterns and libraries used in their code, on top of the analysis made on thousands of open source repos.
Visual Studio developers now get IntelliCode for XAML and C code, in addition to C#. Visual Studio Code developers can use IntelliCode when developing JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Java.
The public preview of Visual Studio Live Share, which is available as an extension for Visual Studio Code, is getting new features to help developers collaborate in real time, including sharing desktop apps, source control diffs, and code commenting. It’s also easier to start a session and view who you’re working with in a dedicated space at the top right of the user interface. Since Live Share is installed alongside the IDE by default, the features are available in Visual Studio 2019. Speaking of which, Microsoft did not provide a timeframe for Visual Studio 2019’s release.
As its name implies, we can expect it to arrive next year, possibly at Build 2019.NET Core 2.2 and.NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 Microsoft today released.NET Core 2.2 with diagnostic improvements to the runtime, support for ARM32 for Windows, and Azure Active Directory for SQL Client. Other improvements include enabling tiered compilation by default, as well as new features in the ASP.NET Core web stack, such as hosting model improvements for IIS; Web API improvements, including API security; template updates for Bootstrap 4 and Angular 6; and HealthCheck upgrades.NET Core 2.2 also offers data stack enhancements, Entity Framework Core, and support for spatial extensions in SQL Server and SQLite. For more details, check out the.
In May,.NET Core 3.0 is the next generation of the.NET Core platform. It promises significant updates to web, cloud, IoT, AI/ML, and Windows desktop workloads. Microsoft today launched.NET Core 3 Preview 1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
You can develop.NET Core 3 applications with Visual Studio 2017 15.9, Visual Studio for Mac, and Visual Studio Code.NET Core 3.0 adds support for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Forms , bringing Windows desktop development to.NET Core. It enables more flexible deployment with side-by-side and self-contained EXE and better performance. For more details, check out the.
By November 28, 2018 December 5, 2018 We are extremely pleased to announce that the preview release of the extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the extension from the marketplace or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. This article provides describes the features and benefits of the extension and provides installation details. It also provides a demo of how using the extension improves the end-to-end experience of developing and deploying Spring Boot applications to local OpenShift cluster. Benefits of using the extension is a container application platform that brings the power of and to the enterprise. Regardless of the applications architecture, OpenShift lets you easily and quickly build, develop, and deploy in nearly any infrastructure, public or private. Therefore, whether it’s on-premises, in a public cloud, or hosted, you have an award-winning platform to get your next big idea to market ahead of your competition.
Using OpenShift Connector, you can interact with Red Hat OpenShift using a local instance of OpenShift clusters such as minishift/. Leveraging the OpenShift Application Explorer view, you can improve the end-to-end experience of developing applications. The extension enables you to perform all this directly using Visual Studio Code and removes the complexity of memorizing some fairly complicated CLI commands. Developer use-case On a developer workstation, when you load a Spring Boot project, the language support detection automatically proposes to load a Spring Boot language support extension and suggests downloading and installing the OpenShift Connector. You can install the recommended extension in Visual Studio Code. Therefore, once the OpenShift Connector is installed, OpenShift Application View is enabled on the Explorer panel in Visual Studio Code. Then, you can access the view and connect to a running OpenShift cluster and perform the required operations.
Demo Here is a working of the end-to-end experience of developing and deploying Spring Boot applications to a local OpenShift cluster using the extension. This demo aims to simplify the OpenShift experience for Visual Studio developers. For detailed installation and usage information, please refer to the. Note: In this Preview release, we support only Java and Node.JS components. We will be supporting other languages in future releases. Installation First, you will need to install 1.12.0 or later.
To install the extension with the latest version of Visual Studio Code, bring up the Visual Studio Code Command Palette (press F1). Type install and choose Extensions: Install Extensions. In the Search Extensions in Marketplace text box, type OpenShift. Find the OpenShift Connector extension published by Red Hat and click the Install button.
Subsequently, you should reload Visual Studio Code and there will be an OpenShift Icon in the Explorer View. Dependencies This extension uses two CLI tools to interact with an OpenShift cluster:. The OpenShift client tool:. The OpenShift Do tool: If oc and odo are located in a directory contained in your PATH, they will be used automatically.
If they aren’t present in your PATH, the extension will prompt you to download and install them. The extension in action Connecting to your OpenShift instance.
Start the local OpenShift instance using minishift/. After the extension is installed in Visual Studio Code, it will prompt you to download the required dependencies ( oc, odo).
The OpenShift Application Explorer view is activated once you click the OpenShift icon in the Explorer View. You then need to log in to the running OpenShift cluster ( – Log in to Cluster).
Provide the cluster URL to connect to the running instance of OpenShift. Now you can log in to the server using the following methods:. Credentials: Log in to the given server with the given credentials (basic auth).
Token: Log in to the given server with the given credentials (token). OpenShift Application Explorer will display the OpenShift cluster in the Tree View. Now you can perform the necessary operations in the connected cluster from the extension directly without looking back and forth to the command line. Working with OpenShift Once the extension is connected to the OpenShift clusters, you can perform operations in OpenShift and build/deploy applications. Note: This extension currently supports a local OpenShift cluster running using. Actions available inside an OpenShift cluster. OpenShift: List catalog components – Lists all available component types from OpenShift’s Image Builder.
OpenShift: List catalog services – Lists all available services, for example, MySQL. OpenShift: New Project – Creates a new project inside the cluster.
OpenShift: About – Provides information about the OpenShift tools. OpenShift: Log out – Logs out of the current OpenShift cluster. Actions available for a project.
Project - New Application – Creates a new application inside the selected project. Project - Delete – Deletes an existing project. Actions available for an application inside a project. Application - New Component – Creates a new component inside the selected application. git – Use a git repository as the source file for the component. local – Use a local directory as a source file for the component.
Application - New Service – Performs service catalog operations. Application - Describe – Describes the given application in a terminal window. Application - Delete – Deletes an existing application.
Actions available for a component in an application. Component - Create URL – Exposes a component to the outside world. The URLs that are generated using this command can be used to access the deployed components from outside the cluster. Component - Create Storage – Creates storage and mounts to a component. Component - Show Log – Retrieves the log for the given component.
Component - Follow Log – Follows logs for the given component. Component - Open in Browser – Opens the exposed URL in a browser. Component - Push – Pushes source code to a component. Component - Watch – Watches for changes and updates component upon change.
Component - Describe – Describes the given component in a terminal window. Component - Delete – Deletes an existing component.
Contributions and Feedback This is an open source project and we welcome contributions and suggestions. Follow these guidelines for more details. We are excited for you to give a try! In addition, any feedback to further improve the developer experience using OpenShift on Visual Studio Code is welcome. Please reach out to us if you have any questions, encounter any issues, or have feature requests. Have thoughts on how we can make the extension better?.
For more discussions, chat with us on. Happy Collaborating, Red Hat Developer Tools Team.