Why isn't IntelliCode working for C# in VSCode?

VSCode's IntelliCode and/or CSharp extension does not work. I try to stop in the middle of writing something like Console. or System., and nothing comes up. It works for literally every other language except C#.

What's happening, and how can I fix it?

Thanks!
Cheers!

Comments

[Mat Jones]

The C# language server in VS Code is just kinda poopy. Try restarting OmniSharp via the command palette.

[HS]

Also VS is kinda bad in many ways as MS focuses on delivery so users can do the QA and report back. Don't be shy to report bugs. I got really angry with Azure and Windows but they fixed some bugs in short time

[Calin Baenen]

I have reported.

[Calin Baenen]

How do I do that?

[Mat Jones]

CMD/CTRL+Shift+P to bring up the command palette, then search for OmniSharp, one of the commands should be to restart it.

[Calin Baenen]

It didn't work, sadly.
Anything else I can do (or worse case, any other IDEs I can use)?

[Mat Jones]

If you have a student (.edu) email address, you can get JetBrains Rider for free, that IDE is really incredible, everything just works amazingly right out of the box.

[Calin Baenen]

I don't, sadly. And I can't really shell out money, since I have no online currency buffer, nor do I have money to spend.

Any free IDEs I could use?

[Mat Jones]

Only free option I know of is Visual Studio. Be warned, though, while it works and will give you IntelliSense, I personally find it really difficult to find things in the UI, I find it to be pretty slow, and I find the default keyboard shortcut mappings to be garbage.

[Calin Baenen]

So, does this mean I'm (almost) shit out of luck here?

[Mat Jones]

Until the Language Server implementation for C# gets better, unfortunately I think so. Visual Studio works okay, I just personally dislike it.

[Calin Baenen]

Okay. I'll try to do some looking myself. But thank you for your help.

[Mat Jones]

He’s asking about VS Code, not Visual Studio.

[Miles Watson]

Oh, my bad.

[Harry Ammon]

Have you checked that you have a .sln file that is aware of the.csproj you are working with? This has caught me out a couple of times

[Calin Baenen]

Sorry, I don't fully understand. What's a sln file? Why does it need to know about my projwct? And how does that help VSC?

[Harry Ammon]

Have you created a dotnet project for your C# file? My understanding is that omnisharp looks for a .sln file to decide what files that add intellisense to.

A .sln file is a dotnet file that references a .csproj files.

[Calin Baenen]

I have, but it never generated thst file. And why would I have multiple CSPs?