Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

In this article, I’ll walk you through the steps to create, build, and run a C# console application using Visual Studio Code (VS Code).

Before we begin, ensure the following prerequisites are installed:

Prerequisites:

• Install VSCode from here
• Open Extensions pane and search for, and install the following:
  • C#
  • C# Dev Kit

• After installing the extensions, restart VS Code for the changes to take effect.

Now that we have prerequisites covered lets proceed with project creation.

Create a Console project:

• From the Explorer, click on Create .NET Project

• In the Project Templates list, choose Console App

• Select a folder where you want to create the project.

• Provide a Name for the new project and press Enter

• Choose Solution File Format as .sln
• Click Create project

• Console project opens up as below in the Explorer.

• Here is the important step. Because we installed C# Dev Kit extension, VSCode provides us the SOLUTION EXPLORER view.
• Switch to SOLUTION EXPLORER view giving you a familiar Visual Studio-like experience inside VS Code.

Debug and Run:

• Open the Program.cs file and add a breakpoint as shown below.

• Click on Run and Debug tab

• click on Run and Debug button.

• Choose C# as debugger under Select debugger

• Next choose the Project

• Control hits the breakpoint

• Alternately, you can trigger dotnet run command from console to run the project without Debugging.

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