



I am assuming that you already have the project working and building in Visual Studio, which is still unavoidable to ensure you have the correct tooling installed on your machine. In this post I will walk you through how to use VS Code with an existing C# of VB project. Unfortunately, most VS Code tutorials center around the newer dotnet-core language, and not on older versions of. In tandem they have also released a fantastic minimal editor called Visual Studio Code, or VS Code for short. Wanting to modernize, Microsoft open-sourced a new light-weight cross-platform version of. NET project had a tight ball-and-chain relationship with Visual Studio, SSMS, and many other multi-gigabyte Microsoft GUIs. I think one of the worst parts about working with a “legacy” codebase is often times the tooling. Updated for 2019: more modular install and no longer depends on full version Visual Studio!
