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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.4

#11

Post by nikmobi »

redwards510 wrote: post #8

I have been trying to use VSCode for languages besides JS, like C# and C++, but I've been getting stuck. There's a big opportunity here for someone to write up some brief tutorials on how to use VSCode for other languages. So far, the instructions are basically "Get VSCode. Enable the C++ extension. Enjoy!" That's not enough, especially when it comes to setting up debugging, which c'mon, everyone needs. The json conf…

I've been using VSCode for C development fairly successfully, although I don't recall if I ever got the debugging working (due to the same reasons you describe). I do remember getting debugging working was a nightmare and had only minimal success on various different platforms (linux, OS X).

I'd suggest installing the clang extension, this was the best out of the box experience for auto completion etc in VSCode.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.4

#12

Post by was_boring »

I've been using VSC as my daily driver for a few months now and it's great -- even on nightly builds. The most powerful features is the tasks.json. Once I learned to use it (the docs aren't good on it), I was able to utilize it to bring a more cohesive experience across many code bases.

I enjoy the fact that it gives an integrated experience and allows community extensions. This is a big change from atom where everything must be cobbled together, hope that it works and will break. My hope is that the MS team will pitch in on the most popular extensions per language and take them to the next level as well.

To top it off, it's one of the most open development processes I've ever seen. They have a clearly defined roadmap, release schedule and even tell you exactly how they work in the wiki (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki). It's fantastic to see such a large company open up like this.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.4

#14

Post by jmdavis_squid »

nikmobi wrote: post #11
redwards510 wrote: post #8

I have been trying to use VSCode for languages besides JS, like C# and C++, but I've been getting stuck. There's a big opportunity here for someone to write up some brief tutorials on how to use VSCode for other languages. So far, the instructions are basically "Get VSCode. Enable the C++ extension. Enjoy!" That's not enough, especially when it comes to setting up debugging, which c'mon, everyone needs. The json conf…

I've been using VSCode for C development fairly successfully, although I don't recall if I ever got the debugging working (due to the same reasons you describe). I do remember getting debugging working was a nightmare and had only minimal success on various different platforms (linux, OS X). I'd suggest installing the clang extension, this was the best out of the box experience for auto completion etc in VSCode.

Thanks to both of you for the feedback on the debugging options for the C++ extension. I'll pass this on to to the documentation folks to get better launch.json documentation released.

I know it isn't ideal, but in the meantime, the best way to get more info is probably the comments that appear when hovering over the fields in the launch.json file or to open up the package.json file to read the comments about each available field in the schema for the extension. The package.json can be found in the .vscode sub-folder of your user account. On my machine, this would be ~/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.cpptools-0.8.1\package.json.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.4

#15

Post by moondev »

Anyone know how to hide the bug icon from the left bar?

Other than that I absolutely love vscode. I use it on osx and linux daily. It really hits the sweet spot for my work flow. Cheers to the team for another great release.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.4

#16

Post by pookeh »

Still no auto-import on Typescript. The main reason I use Webstorm over VSCode currently.

What I am talking about:

  * new Foo|

  * 

  * (Automatically inserted by editor top of the file where imports are) import {Foo} from "../relativePath/to/Foo.ts"

  * new Foo(param);|
Working on a large TS codebase without this is absurd. Webstorm is way ahead of VSCode in this area, including things like multiple named imports like:

  * import {Foo, Bar} from "../../foobar.ts"
Additionally, things like refactoring filename that affect the all imports that reference that filename -- not sure if that got added in VSCode recently tho.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.4

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Post by jordanlev »

Whenever I try a new text editor, I run into a problem: I absolutely love the feature where it auto-completes based on other words in open windows (or other files in the open project). But there's no official term for this so I can never tell if a text editor has it.

Years ago this used to be called "hippie expand", but I can't figure out a more modern name that is used. Does anyone know what Visual Studio Code calls this feature, and/or how to enable it (assuming it even exists?)

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.4

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Post by girvo »

redwards510 wrote: post #8

I have been trying to use VSCode for languages besides JS, like C# and C++, but I've been getting stuck. There's a big opportunity here for someone to write up some brief tutorials on how to use VSCode for other languages. So far, the instructions are basically "Get VSCode. Enable the C++ extension. Enjoy!" That's not enough, especially when it comes to setting up debugging, which c'mon, everyone needs. The json conf…

You're not wrong about the documentation for "launch.json", but one thing to play around with is: open it up and use the autocomplete. It helped me discover loads of options that I hadn't seen documented anywhere!

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.4

#20

Post by AlexC04 »

jordanlev wrote: post #17

Whenever I try a new text editor, I run into a problem: I absolutely love the feature where it auto-completes based on other words in open windows (or other files in the open project). But there's no official term for this so I can never tell if a text editor has it. Years ago this used to be called "hippie expand", but I can't figure out a more modern name that is used. Does anyone know what Visual Studio Code calls…

You mean you have a text editor that knows what words are on the page in a CHROME tab (for example)

Or you mean, that if you've got 2 text files open as tabs in the same VSCODE window typing in 1 tab will auto-complete with words from the 2nd tab?

Where have you seen this feature as it sounds AMAZING!

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