OmniSharp

OmniSharp: Open-Source SDK for C# and .NET Development

OmniSharp provides IDE-like features for text editors like Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Atom and Vim, including auto-completion, code formatting, refactoring, syntax highlighting and more.

What is OmniSharp?

OmniSharp is an open-source software development kit (SDK) that provides Integrated Development Environment (IDE)-like capabilities for text editors and Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). It was created by the .NET Foundation to bring a rich IDE experience to text editors like Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Atom, and Vim.

OmniSharp enables features like auto-completion, code formatting, refactoring, syntax highlighting, code navigation, and more for C# and .NET developers. It uses the Roslyn compiler platform to provide these features. Some of the key capabilities OmniSharp unlock for .NET developers include:

• Contextual auto-completion for C# code
• Real-time code analysis with error and warning highlighting
• Automatic formatting of code snippets to match C# style guidelines
• Ability to easily rename variables, methods, classes across entire codebases
• Finding references and usages of variables, methods and other symbols
• Syntax highlighting, bracket matching, and code folding
• Support for running .NET Core unit test frameworks like xUnit, NUnit and MSTest

By providing IDE-like assistance and productivity enhancements, OmniSharp allows .NET developers to be more productive even when using lightweight editors like Sublime Text, Vim or Visual Studio Code. It is a popular extension used by .NET developers on Visual Studio Code and has over 3 million downloads.

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