C# Dev Kit is Now Available

Four months after it was released in preview, Microsoft’s C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code is now generally available.

“Today, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension that brings an improved editor-first C# development experience to Linux, macOS, and Windows,” Microsoft’s Wendy Breiding writes. “The C# Dev Kit leverages the core C# language services and delivers additional productivity value to developers. While these core productivity features are now generally available, additional experiences that support .NET MAUI and Unity are still in preview, leveraging the C# Dev Kit. These extensions continue to benefit from feedback and improving your development workflows for MAUI and Unity in VS Code.”

Since that first preview, the C# Dev Kit team has addressed over 350 issues, most of which were reported by the community, resulting in over 300 targeted improvements to the product. That feedback was crucial, Microsoft says, to help transition the C# Dev Kit from preview to general availability, which also means that it is fully supported now for Visual Studio subscribers. The team will continue to improve performance and reliability and will add new features on a monthly basis going forward.

You can learn more about the C# Dev Kit from the Visual Studio Code website. And you can install the extension in Visual Studio or via this link.