So I recently got to try visual studio code with UE4 and to my surprise I found it to be supported and the engine can generate the necessary files and overall everything is been going great, at least for me everything I’ve been doing in visual studio IDE, I’m also able to do in VS code.
The good part is VS code is so much faster in terms of loading, one click, 2 seconds later and I’m already typing code and even intellisense is behaving better, plus with all the plugins you can install to make your life easier.
At this point I’m debating if I even want to go back to visual studio IDE.
What have been your experience with VS code so far and would you replace visual studio IDE with VS code ?
I did use VS Code awhile back and it looked nice from what I remember. I haven’t tried it with UE though. Are there any instructions we can follow? Maybe once I get through fighting with IIS I can try it.
You can use both, but afaik the big boy tools are Visual Assist / Resharper (VS Plugins which don’t work with VS Code) or Rider (another IDE).
If you don’t use them, I don’t see why not. For me VS’ speed doesn’t make that much of a difference, and I use VS Code with stuff like build configuration files (C#).
Essentially to get the compiler you can download the Build Tools for Visual Studio or if you already have visual studio IDE installed then you already have access to the compiler.
Next thing is open a UE4 project and go to Edit>Editor preferences on the left side under the General category you should see Source Code, click on that and change the Source Code Editor to visual code.
