Trying out Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu

Anatoly Mironov

October 21, 2015

I am very curious about the new .NET Core, ASP.NET 5, EF 7 and Visual Studio Code for Linux, Mac and Windows. I have tried it out on an Ubuntu 15.04 machine. The installation and configuration required a few steps, so it is not an usual “Next-next-next”-installation. But, hey, it is just a beta, a preview so far, and first of all: It worked. I am sharing a couple of screenshots and the commands I ran in the terminal, mixed with comments and links:

# install latest node and npm
# https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo npm install -g yo
sudo npm install -g generator-aspnet

# download VS Code and make a link
# make a folder
mkdir workspace/tryvs
cd workspace/tryvs

# create "src/global.json" file:
# http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/tutorials/your-first-mac-aspnet.html
nano src/global.json

The contents of src/global.json:

{
  "sdk": {
    "version": "1.0.0-beta7"
  }
}

# start VS Code
# create
# install omnisharp:
# http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/getting-started/installing-on-linux.html#installing-on-debian-ubuntu-and-derivatives
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aspnet/Home/dev/dnvminstall.sh | \
  DNX_BRANCH=dev sh && source ~/.dnx/dnvm/dnvm.sh
dnvm

# install dnx
sudo apt-get install -y \
  libunwind8 gettext libssl-dev libcurl3-dev zlib1g libicu-dev
dnvm upgrade -r coreclr
cd EmptyApplication
dnu restore

# install libuv
# http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/getting-started/installing-on-linux.html#using-docker
sudo apt-get install make automake libtool curl
curl -sSL https://github.com/libuv/libuv/archive/v1.4.2.tar.gz | \
  sudo tar zxfv - -C /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src/libuv-1.4.2
sudo sh autogen.sh
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/src/libuv-1.4.2 && cd ~/
sudo ldconfig

# build, I got an error here
dnu build

# start the web server
dnx web