C# Utilities

That "other" blue soda can, when you already have a red can and a blue can to choose from.

This extension provides some helpful features to hopefully speed up your workflow when developing .net applications in VSCode.

Features currently include:

• Adding a class/interface/etc from the Explorer side bar
• Managing project references
• See all projects' references in a tree view
• Not collecting any data

Features

Add C# Item

Add a new C# file from the Explorer view.

This menu is available when you right-click a .cs file, a .csproj file, or a folder.

Currently the following types of items are supported:

• Class
• Interface
• Record
• Enum
• Struct

Note: When Adding an Item

• If you attempt to add an item by right-clicking a file/directory that is not inside a directory that contains a .csproj file (or subdirectory thereof), you will be alerted as such.

• The namespace is derived from either the Project -> PropertyGroup -> RootNamespace element in the .csproj file (if specified) or the project name. The namespace will have sub-namespacing that respects the folder tree.

  • If multiple PropertyGroup elements exist in the .csproj file with differing RootNamespace values, it will defer to the project name.

Settings

• File Scoped Namespace

  If this is checked, the new item will be created with file-scoped namespace. Otherwise, the "old" structure will be generated.

  Default: true

• Include Using Statements

  If this is checked, the new item will be created with using statements for each namespace specified in the "Namespaces To Include" setting.

  Default: false

• Namespaces To Include

  List of namespaces to generate using statements for when creating a new item.

  Default: System, System.Collections.Generic, System.Text

Manage Project References

Right-clicking a .csproj file gives your the option to "Manage Project References..." which will open a menu showing all available projects in the workspace, with the ones already referenced being checked.

Simply check the projects you wish to reference and uncheck the ones you don't.

Note: When Managing Project References

• If a circular reference would be created from this action, an error will be displayed and it will be aborted.

• This feature does not manually edit the .csproj file - it actually executes the commands in an integrated terminal instance. So, if things do not go as you expect, check your integrated terminal named dotnet for any weirdness, and, please, feel free to file an issue.

Project Reference Tree

Selecting the C# icon on the side-bar will pull up the view and prompt you to select a "root" project. A list will be displayed of all C# projects in the workspace. Once selected the view will be populated with a tree showing the project reference dependency tree. You can also edit the references for a project by clicking on the pencil, and the tree will automatically refresh.

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code v1.65.0 or higher.
• .NET 5+ or .NET Core SDK

Upcoming Features

• Ability to add/remove C# projects.
• Option for C#10 syntax features in new item templates

To answer the question... "Why?"

There are several popular extensions available that attempt to achieve what this extension attempts to achieve... I just haven't found one that ticks the following boxes:

• Actively maintained
• Bug-free
• Lightweight
• Not trying to do "too much"

So, I decided I'll make my own C# extension... with blackjack... and hookers.*

* Blackjack and hookers not included.

Telemetry/Privacy

This extension collects no data from anything. Every release of this extension is from source code publicly available. The only insight into metrics the developers or anyone have are the download numbers on the marketplace page and any issues or discussions that users create on the github repo.

I cannot speak on behalf of the packages utilized in this extension :

• fast-xml-parser
• inversify
• reflect-metadata
• util
• ts-md5

Issues

Check the bugs for things that may actually impact functionality.

Please, don't hesitate to file an issue.

Release Notes

1.2.0

• Adding project reference tree.
• Code cleanup/refactor

1.0.0

• Disallowing project references with circular references
• DevOps infrastructure
• Fixed issue where the extension basically didn't work from v0.6.0 on
• Code cleanup/optimization/documentation

0.3.1

• Added feature to manage project references.
• Code cleanup & documentation updating.

0.1.0

This is the inaugural release of this extension. I'm sure there are bugs, and I've filed several issues so far regarding future plans for this extension.

Contributing

Yeah, click that link above... Still sorting this part out. I'm just a one-man operation.