Conflict with official C# extension installed, how to set FreeOmnisharp as default?
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Some extensions like C# snippets require the official ms-dotnettools version of C# extension to be installed and enabled.
If I have both Official C# and FreeOmnisharp C# extensions, how do you set in launch.json which one to use for debugging? When I press F5 it uses the official one to run the debugger not this one.
A lot of popular extensions depend on the official one.
Environment data
dotnet --info output: .NET 5.0.102 SDK Installed
VS Code version: Latest
C# Extension version: Latest
Steps to reproduce
- Install the Microsoft Official C# extension for VS Code
- Install the Free Omnisharp VSCode Extension
- Run the program, uses official MS C# by default
Expected behavior
- Be able to set the default extension to use as FreeOmnisharp
- OR
- Allow third-party extensions to think Microsoft Official C# is installed
Actual behavior
- Debugger runs with official c# extension not with FreeOmnisharp
- Disabling or removing microsoft C# extension makes it impossible to use other extenions that depend on it.
I don't know if vscode can choose one to be the default or not.
But you can change the C# key inside the extensionDependencies key of package.json of an extension source from ms-dotnettools.csharp to muhammad-sammy.csharp and build that extension's vsix file from source.
Or you can change all occurrences of ms-dotnettools.csharp in an installed extension in .vsixmanifest and package.json files at $HOME/.vscode-oss/extensions/EXTENSION_FOLDER/ and do this for every update for that extension.
Another solution would be to build free-omnisharp-vscode extension from source but change the extension id before building at:
It has improved in the meantime. For example Roslynator supports our version and also it should be reported to the upstream repositories if they depend on official C# extension. Let's close that one.