Announcement: A roadmap update on the VS Code C# extension

Over the past several months, the .NET team has evaluated ways to evolve the .NET tooling ecosystem and incorporate more capabilities into VS Code. Currently, the C# experience in VS Code is powered by OmniSharp. This is thanks to the leadership of[ Filip Wojcieszyn,](https://github.com/filipw)[ David Driscoll](https://github.com/david-driscoll), [Martin Björkström](https://github.com/bjorkstromm), and also, Jason Imison, who originally started the OmniSharp project over eight years ago. OmniSharp generated a lot of excitement by bringing the C# experience to VS Code, using the APIs and protocols that were available at that time. VS Code has since matured and today, the[ Language Server Protocol](https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/) (LSP) has become the standard mechanism through which modern developer tools speak to one another. We believe that moving the C# extension to LSP will help us accomplish our goal of creating an extensible and flexible tooling environment which easily integrates new experiences into C# for VS Code. As we move towards a more dynamic future for the C# experience in VS Code, we intend to switch the extension to communicate entirely using LSP and plan to update the existing OmniSharp component to communicate in this manner as well. Utilizing LSP will allow us to bring innovative new features to the C# for VS Code extension. This includes making advanced capabilities available and, in some cases, closed-source experiences, such as Int

Posted by timheuer on Jun 15, 2022, 5:53 PM

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