Are there any meaningful impact of benefit to change VS 2015 to 2017 in regard to unity C# develop?
Of course there is free version, but I realize that without code lens’s function reference feature(only possible at VS Pro version), its very painful to use. So buying is must.
if you already own 2015 pro… don’t waste your money upgrading at this point.
Sure it’s a bit better, but it’s mostly incremental. Nothing I can think of Unity related that would give some major improvement in your coding experience.
If you don’t own either… get the latest, duh.
Yeah, I don’t know the cost of pro, but if you already own 2015, no real reason I can see to change unless you just get a really good price I suppose on an upgrade.
VSCode has code lens btw… and it’s free. sure, setup is a little different, but if you’re looking for free… about as good as it gets.
I am using also Resharper. So VSCode also support resharper? (or vice versa)
No (unless they recently changed plans). JetBrains has been pouring time into their own IDE, and hasn’t had plans to support Visual Code.
There are other plugins similarish to ReSharper, but I’ve never used them in Visual Code… primarily because I don’t use Visual Code for C# dev. I do mostly python in Visual Code.
Honestly… I wouldn’t go to Visual Code if you already have Visual Studio. Visual Code is great if you dev in OSX or Linux… but if you’re on Windows, Visual Studio is just so much better.
The only thing in the Windows realm I see Visual Code winning at is speed. It does start up much faster than Visual Studio. So like, if you’re on a laptop, with limited memory or something, and want to close your IDE in between use… I guess it’s better in that department?
@lordofduct I am using quite powerful laptop, Asus G752VS, has i7-7700HQ cpu and 32g ram, GTX1070, samsung 960 evo 512g ssd, on that I am running unity and Visual Studio. So not much different with my desktop at performance though I will switch later more powerful rigs like 7820HK cpu and super raid of 2 nvme ssd.
So, JetBrains’s own IDE is more good than VS?
I haven’t used JetBrain’s Rider IDE yet (the .net IDE they have).
I know it’s based on IntelliJ (their Java IDE), with ReSharper stuff put into it.
I know it was buggy as all heck at initial release, but they’ve been fixing those kinks.
Personally, since I already have Visual Studio and ReSharper… I see no reason in spending the money on JetBrain’s IDE.
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I’ve been using the beta for a while, and… not yet. It’s definitely promising - I spend a lot less time waiting than with VS+Resharper, while getting the same suite of refactoring tools that makes the waiting worthwhile to start with. The Unity integration tools are also much better, and it’s very clear that Jetbrains is targeting Unity users hard with this product.
On the other hand, it’s still a beta product, so it’s buggy. The debugger is both less feature-rich and not as smooth (to me), and the build configuration manager leaves a lot to be desired.
I’ll switch at launch, but mostly because JetBrains seems to be much better than Microsoft at not completely redoing their UI layout every two years.
EDIT: oh, also if you have any old UnityScript or Boo (hah, like anyone else than we ever used Boo) around, Rider can’t handle that at all for now, so stick to Visual Studio.
Grabbed the Rider EAP the other day as well and I really like it; but I haven’t had to do any extensive debugging to this point so I can’t speak to the concerns that @Baste raised.I haven’t hit too many bugs aside from the “highlight wrong text” exception that seems to happen fairly regularly.
I use both VS2015 and VSCode in my workflow. VS2015 for Unity and C# stuff, and VSCode for server side stuff to deal with HTML/CSS/Javascript.
Why am I using VS2015 instead of VS2017? Too lazy to upgrade, to be honest 
I might upgrade when Unity 2017.1 becomes production ready, though.
2017 adds little dotted vertical lines between braces that you can hover over to see what function you’re in without scrolling, so that’s kind of nice. And when debugging it puts a little “debug to here” icon whenever you hover over anything, so that’s cool too. And it comes with a pre-installed Git integration that will show you what you’ve changed since the last checkin, but I think you can get that as a free extension for 2015 if you want it. Other than that I can’t think of any real major changes from 2015. Worth upgrading if you get it for free, but I don’t know if I’d pay money for it.
Same situation for me. Only I’m waiting till I start making improvements on my computer to upgrade. Unless support for 2015 is removed from Unity I don’t see enough of an advantage to warrant the headache of upgrading VS when it’s such a pain to remove older releases.
As a side note, installing vs 2017 allows you to pick and choose what you want. There is an option just to install stuff for Unity. (so if you don’t plan to do asp.net stuff for example, no need to install it)
I still have 2015 installed currently, but just installed 2017 along side it. I’ll remove 2015 in the future.
So when it will release and price?
No idea! It feels like it’s a couple of months away from being ready. Their other IDEs range from 60 to 150 euros a year for individual customers, or 130 to 500 for businesses.
so… if only think about Unity c# coding, and if Rider is better than VS, there is no reason to use VS? Rider also support all .net syntax?
That’s entirely up to you. I’m happy with Visual Studio.
Wouldn’t be much of an IDE if it didn’t.