Install Visual Studio Code

Once you have the built splashkit you can download and install Visual Studio Code to use as a source code editor.

Steps

1. Download Visual Studio Code

   

2. Open up a terminal.

   

3. Install Visual Studio Code

   In the terminal window, change directory using the cd command to the directory where Visual Studio Code downloaded

   cd ~/Downloads

   Then, install the .deb package by copying and pasting the code below into your terminal and pressing enter.

   sudo dpkg -i code_1.*.deb

   

4. In Visual Studio Code you should install the following extensions:

   For C#:

   • C#
   • C# Dev Kit
   • Intellicode for C# Dev Kit

   You can do this from the command line by executing:

   code --install-extension ms-dotnettools.csharp
   code --install-extension ms-dotnettools.csdevkit
   code --install-extension ms-dotnettools.vscodeintellicode-csharp

   For C++:

   • C++ Extension Pack

   You can do this from the command line by executing:

   code --install-extension ms-vscode.cpptools-extension-pack