Visual Studio C# Integration
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Visual Studio C# Integration

What does this feature get me?

A more sophisticated C# code writing environment.
Think smart autocompletion, computer assisted changes to your codefiles, smart syntax highlighting and more.

What's the difference between Express and Pro?

VisualStudio C# 2008 is a product from Microsoft. It comes in an Express and a Profesional edition.
The Express edition is free, and you can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/
The Professional edition is not free, you can find out more information about it here: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/professional/default.mspx

Unity's VisualStudio integration has two components:
1) Unity creating and maintaining VisualStudio project files. Works with Express and with Profesional.
2) Unity automatically opening VisualStudio when you doubleclick on a script, or error in Unity. Works with Profesional only.

I've got Visual Studio Express, how do I use it?

I've got Visual Studio Profesional, how do I use it?

Does this work with other versions than Visual Studio C# 2008?

We've tested against Visual Studio 2008 and a prerelease version of Visual Studio 2010. At the time of this release, Visual Studio 2010 was not yet released, so we're not sure if Unity will work nicely with Visual Studio 2010 once it is released.

A few things to watch out for:

Page last updated: 2010-07-16