c# - Intellisense not automatically working VSCode

Question

I just downloaded Visual Studio Code and my Intellisense is not automatically working.

The two settings that control this seem to be set correctly:

"editor.quickSuggestions": true,
"editor.suggestOnTriggerCharacters": true,

I do get an Intellisense menu when i start typing and press "CTRL + Space", but this gives me a list of everything and not things specifically for my object.

What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

Visual Studio Code's more advanced editing features (IntelliSense, refactoring tools, etc.) only work in C# files if you have a project.json file or *.sln file that VSCode is aware of. Open the folder (i.e. open the File menu and click Open Folder...) with the *.sln file or project.json and VSCode will attempt to find all project/solution files in the folder. If there are multiple projects, you may need to select one from the projects button on the right side of the status bar (bottom of the window).

From the VSCode website:

• Selecting a project.json-file is opening a DNX-project and VSCode will load that project plus the referenced projects
• Selecting a *.sln-file is opening a MSBuild-project. It will load the referenced *.csproj-projects and sibling or descendant project.json-files but no other project files that are referenced from the solution file.
• Selecting a folder will make VSCode scan for *.sln and project.json files and VSCode will attempt to load them all.