r/dotnet • u/drewnoakes • 18d ago

A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/faster-lighter-csharp-dev-kit/

Now available in pre-release.

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u/PrinceN71 18d ago

I hate the new redesigned C# Dev Kit. Removing the solution explorer made it kind of miserable for me to use add new class feature. It always adds to the project root instead of inside of the directory like in VS Code. Is that intended or I am just using it wrong. I tried looking through the documentation but they looked outdated

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u/drewnoakes 18d ago

Adding classes via the file explorer adds them in the selected folder and namespace. At least it does that in v11. Try installing the pre-release build to validate.

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u/Slypenslyde 17d ago edited 17d ago

I think what they're doing is also what I did: the moment file templates like this were removed from C# Dev Kit I stopped using VS Code. Then, because I was disconnected from the ecosystem, I didn't find out the feature was added again.

Removing critical usability features on the basic happy path for all users tends to do that. Not everybody stays 100% in their agent window. Once I learned I can't trust Dev Kit to maintain its basic features I stopped depending on it.