Setting up VS Code

[00:00 - 00:10] Now that the environment setup is ready, let's install some extensions which will make our lives better as a developer. Go through this lecture only if you're using VS Code as your core editor.

[00:11 - 00:21] Lately, VS Code has become very smart. Developers have worked very hard and made some amazing extensions that support various programming languages and tools.

[00:22 - 00:29] Mind you, this is not an IDE. And I don't expect this to be as productive as an integrated developer environment.

[00:30 - 00:35] But trust me, it's getting better and better every day. Let's talk about the most essential extension first.

[00:36 - 00:48] On the left, click on the extensions and search for C#. Install the one which is powered by Omni Shop.

[00:49 - 00:59] It's a lightweight development tool for .NET Go and it has great C# editing support. It includes syntax highlighting, intelligence, debugging support and much much more.

[01:00 - 01:04] Once you have installed this extension, let's move on to the next one. So this is our painkiller.

[01:05 - 01:13] Now let's talk about some vitamins. All these tools are optional but good to have and the first one is C# extensions by JKNON.

[01:14 - 01:23] Although this one is not under development anymore, but it does its job pretty well. We will be using this extension for creating classes, interfaces by just one click.

[01:24 - 01:30] It also helps us creating constructors and also in initialization. We will be using it all the time.

[01:31 - 01:41] So we will talk about once we start using it. Now let's talk about the next one which is Nougat Gallery.

[01:42 - 01:50] Nougat Gallery provides us access for the Nougat Package Manager which is like NPM of ASP.NET World. We will be using it to install our dependencies.

[01:51 - 01:59] This makes installing new packages very convenient and we can also do it from our command line which is cool. You can also use prettier.

[02:00 - 02:06] This automatically formats your code. Prittier is a very popular extension with more than 12 million downloads.

[02:07 - 02:20] It's primarily used for JavaScript, TypeScript, Flow, JSX, JSON, CSS, SAS, less , HTML view, Angular. Also it can be used with GraphQL, with Markdown files, with YAML.

[02:21 - 02:25] We can use it to format our JavaScript and CSS code. This one is very good to have.

[02:26 - 02:31] Our next extension is Bracket Pair Colorizer. So you can search for it.

[02:32 - 02:39] Bracket Pair Colorizer. This will color your opening and closing brackets with the same color.

[02:40 - 02:47] It's very helpful when you're dealing with a lot of code. Now the next one is Material Icon Theme.

[02:48 - 02:54] To make your files and folders look better, you can install Material Icon Theme . Again it's optional.

[02:55 - 03:04] If you don't like the look and feel of it, feel free to uninstall it. It's just that I use it and if you want your project to look the same as mine, this is what I use.

[03:05 - 03:12] And the last one is SQLite. We will be using SQLite for our development database.

[03:13 - 03:19] Once we deploy our project to the cloud, we will switch it to a production ready database. Well, that's about it.

[03:20 - 03:22] We are all set to work on our project. Let's start coding in the next lesson.