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Install Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code, also commonly known as VS Code or just Code, is a powerful and versatile code editor that enables efficient coding, debugging, and collaboration for your SplashKit projects!

Steps

  1. Download Visual Studio Code, found at code.visualstudio.com.

  2. Install Visual Studio Code.

    Gif showing Visual Studio installation in Finder

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

    For C#:

    You can do this from the command line by executing:

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

    For C++:

    You can do this from the command line by executing:

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