vscode-csharp: MSBuild does not locate targets for MonoGame

Environment data

dotnet --info output:

ambs@diabelli CourseCSharp $ dotnet --info
.NET Command Line Tools (1.0.1)

Product Information:
 Version:            1.0.1
 Commit SHA-1 hash:  005db40cd1

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     linuxmint
 OS Version:  18.1
 OS Platform: Linux
 RID:         ubuntu.16.04-x64
 Base Path:   /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/1.0.1

VS Code version: $ code --version 1.11.2 6eaebe3b9c70406d67c97779468c324a7a95db0e

C# Extension version: 1.8.1

Steps to reproduce

I open code with a standard C# hello world project, write ‘Console.’ and no completion is shown.

Expected behavior

Expected the list of available methods from the System.Console class

Actual behavior

none.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 30 (16 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Yup. OK. Here’s a workaround for you. It’s not great, but’ll get your project working. Add an “omnisharp.json” file to the directory that you’re opening in VS Code with the following content:

{
    "msbuild": {
        "MSBuildExtensionsPath": "/usr/lib/mono/xbuild"
    }
}

Be sure to keep that file in the root folder that you open in VS Code and it should get things working for you.

DustinCampbell on Apr 18, 2017