Setting up a C# workspace in Visual Studio 2015

This is a simple guide on how you can setup your workspace, so you could lookup all APIs and use proper code-completion in the Visual Studio IDE.

1. Download Visual Studio 2015 Express Here: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=532606&clcid=0x409
2. Install it with the default options
3. Once you have loaded up the IDE, go in File -> New -> Project, select Templates -> Visual C#, select "Class Library", enter your plugin name, for example, "TestPlugin", and press OK
4. Then on the right side, open "Solution Explorer", expand the References section, select all but "Analyzers", then rightclick and remove.
5. Rightclick on References, press add, press Browse and go to your rust server directory, for example, "E:\Rust\rustds\RustDedicated_Data\Managed", and select all of the .dll files except for "mscorlib.dll", "System.Core.dll" and "System.Data.dll".

Done, you can now enjoy proper syntax highlighting and code-completion, now get cracking.

 

And with notepad++?

 

I tried this method first.. however I got no working intellisense/code complete suggestions.

Vilsol method worked fine and I get working intellisense which really helps

 

i cant import references and couldnt find anything in references to delete

 

for those who use mac, try visual studio code.

 

There isn't a System.Core.dll anymore from what I can tell.
I'm also getting this

Code:

Error    CS0012    The type 'MonoBehaviour' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'UnityEngine, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.    RespawnMessages    c:\users\dellpc\documents\visual studio 2015\Projects\RespawnMessages\RespawnMessages\Class1.cs  

I'm assuming it is because there is a .dll missing, but I installed them all with the exclusion of the ones you pointed out.

 

Is there somewhere an official guide for this?

Iike one that is updated to a somewhat recent state and that contains all the current fetures. The api documentation doesn't even provide information on mysql support. But that would not be a big deal if there was a guide on how to set up the references.

 

Doesn't that miss at least the csproj stuff and the librarys?

The last time i worked with c# was about 1 year ago and i only did it for about 1 year.

 

Where should they be located? I still can't find them and visual studio also doesn't.

 

Sio i assume there is a copyright problem to this?

Right now im searching for the files in my server directory but i would have aprreciated a package containing them...

 

Any idea how i get it working properly with auto suggestions and so on?

 

It does.