C # code generation in VSCode on Mac

Question

I am creating a command line tool using Xamarin. After I was told about Visual Studio Code, I wanted to see if I could try to use it as an editor and debugger.

I managed to get him to debug an existing .exe created with Xamarin by editing the launch.json file, and he knows which source files should jump when going through the code.

However, I cannot figure out how to actually get it to compile a new executable? Whenever I make any changes to the source code, it simply debugs the old executable file, which is located in <my project>/<my project>/bin/Debug/<project>.exe , as it was by default in Xamarin

It seems that he understands the source code itself, since it has a ton of warnings.

Answer 1

You can configure the build task to compile the modified source. See https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/tasks or http://blog.denouter.net/2015/04/compile-visual-studio-solution-in.html

Answer 2

You are using mcs, for example:

mcs -out: program.exe -recurse: '*. cs'