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VS Code setup

What is Visual Studio Code?

VS Code (or just VSC) is a popular open source text editor / IDE (integrated development environment) by Microsoft
Very extensible by extensions
Has many language-specific features like Omnisharp for C#

Visual Studio Code is not Visual Studio

Visual Studio is an older, bulkier IDE, also by Microsoft
- it has more features!
Visual Studio Code is quite new, relatively lightweight
- originally scarce in features
- more popular in web development
Both are used for Unity development
We'll be using VS Code on this course
- Note: VS Code Unity Debug Extension has been recently deprecated
- We don't need the extension on this course, but it's good to know

VS Code installation

During installation, check these two options:

Logging into VS Code

You can log in with your GitHub account to VS Code in the Accounts tab
Then, by turning on Settings sync, your user-defined settings are carried over to whichever computer you're working on

Open the project folder in VS Code
- Either by opening the folder from File Explorer context menu (Open with Code)
- Or in VS Code File > Open Folder...

Extra: Other extensions

Marp for VS Code
- If you want to read these slides inside VS Code
- After installation, open this .md file from the course repository
- Click the Open preview to the side button
GitLens & Git Graph (See Git basics)