Visual Studio Tools for Unity allows you to use the code editing, debugging and productivity features of Visual Studio to create editor and game scripts for your Unity project using C#. Also, you can debug scripts using Visual Studio's powerful debugging capabilities.
v2.8 [Nov 18, 2016]
New Features
General:
Added Visual Studio 2017 installer support.
Added Visual Studio 2017 extension support.
Added localization support.
Code Editor:
Added C# IntelliSense for Unity messages.
Added C# code coloration for Unity messages.
Debugger:
Added support for is, as, direct cast, default, new expressions.
Added support for string concat expressions.
Added support for hexadecimal display of integer values.
Added support for creating new temporary variables (statements).
Added support for implicit primitive conversions.
Added better error messages when a type is expected or not found.
Project Generation:
Removed the CSharp suffix from the project names.
Removed reference to a system wide msbuild targets file.
Wizards:
Added support for Unity messages in non Behaviour types such as Editor or EditorWindow.
Switched to Roslyn to inject and format Unity messages.
Bug fixes
Debugger:
Fixed a bug crashing Unity when evaluating generic types.
Fixed handling of nullable types.
Fixed handling of enums.
Fixed handling of nested member types.
Fixed collection indexer access.
Fixed support for debugging iterator frames with new C# compiler.
Project Generation:
Fixed bug that prevented compilation when targeting the Unity Web player.
Fixed bug that prevented compilation when compiling a script with a web encoded file name.
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