Microsoft’s new C# Dev Kit extension for Visual Studio Code turns the programmer’s editor into a complete development environment for .NET.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight IDE from Microsoft for developers to write code in a variety of languages like Python, PHP and more. It has inbuilt support for Git as well.

Figure 1: Roslyn Visual Studio Templates. Next create a new Console Application, open up Program.cs and add the following using statements. using Roslyn.Scripting; using Roslyn.Scripting.CSharp; ...