{"id":3420,"date":"2014-11-12T23:47:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2014-11-13T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T13:45:10","slug":"visual-studio-community-2013-free-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/visual-studio-community-2013-free-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"using Visual Studio Community 2013 (Free) with Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"visual_studio_community_with_unity_and_unityvs_1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Visual Studio Community 2013 A Full-Featured IDE – FREE<\/strong>” (link<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Some notes what it took to make it work (was pretty easy)<\/p>\n

Installing Visual Studio Community 2013 (FREE!)<\/strong>
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Download: http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/products\/visual-studio-community-vs<\/a>
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Install (you can leave out those extras)
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Restart
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Start visual studio
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Sign in
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0[x] Create visual studio online account (optional, but could be useful later,\u00a0 more info: http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/products\/what-is-visual-studio-online-vs.aspx<\/a> , free for 5 users)
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Development settings: General
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Color scheme: Dark (well anything works)
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Can close it now
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Start Unity
\n–\u00a0 ** You dont need to do these next steps if you will install VS Tools also<\/em> **
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Go to Edit \/ Preferences \/ External Tools
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0External script editor, click \u201cbrowse..\u201d from the dropdown
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Find Visual Studio Community exe, default location is at: C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\\Common7\\IDE\\devenv.exe
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Test opening some script
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Yay it works! (and even clicking error codes in console takes you to the correct line)<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

VS TOOLS FOR UNITY<\/strong> (previously UnityVs<\/strong>, so you can use Debugging and maybe there are other benefits also??)
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Download (I took 2013 version: https:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/20b80b8c-659b-45ef-96c1-437828fe7cf2<\/a> (or check http:\/\/unityvs.com\/<\/a> )
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Then copy \u201cVisual Studio 2013 Tools.unitypackage\u201d from \u201cC:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Unity\\2013\\\u201d into your Unity Standard packages folder (so that its easy to import)
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Standard Packages folder is usually somewhere like \u201cC:\\Program Files (x86)\\Unity4\\Editor\\Standard Packages\\\u201d (It contains the other unity standard packages also)
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0You need to restart unity for it to show up in the Import Package list
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Done!<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

FINAL TEST & DEBUGGING<\/strong>
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Start Unity
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Import \u201cVisual Studio 2013 Tools.unitypackage\u201d (right click in Project window, Import Package \/ Visual Studio 2013 Tools\u201d
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0New Menu item appears: Visual Studio Tools
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Menu: Visual Studio Tools \/ Generate Project Files (not sure what it does, but why not..)
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Menu: Visual Studio Tools \/ Configuration
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Activate [x] Open scripts with Visual Studio
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Now open some script by double clicking it
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Visual Studio Community should open (for me it didn\u2019t open the script on first run, had to double click script file again)
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Now Debugging should work: In Visual Studio, select menu: Debug\u00a0 \/ Attach Unity Debugger
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Then select unity instance (displays the project name)
\n–\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Insert breakpoint somewhere in code (by clicking the left border of script editor window, left side to line numbers)<\/p>\n

*To enable line numbers in VS, type \u201cline numbers\u201d (without quotes) in the Quick Launch search box, then enable [x] Line numbers from that settings page<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

TODO\/Missing:
\n– Scripting API keywords search on keypress (like in monodev)
\n– ctrl+D for duplicate line (like in uniscite)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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