Here are the steps to set up Visual Studio Code for Space Engineers ingame script development.

This will provide an environment where autocompletion / intelisense and syntax checking work.

• I'll assume you already have SE installed!

• Install Visual Studio Code (VSC)

• Install the following VSC Extensions

  • install c# extension in VSC (OmniSharp)
  • install NuGet Package manager VSC Extension

• install .net cli tools / SDK (needed?)

• install net framwork devpack 4.6.1

  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=49978

• Then clone this directory structure.

• If you have a non-standard SE location, change SpaceEngineers.csproj

• 'open folder' (this folder) from VSC.

• copy starter-template.cs to a new file for each script you create

• change the namespace

• Put your code changes between the region tags (see comment in template)

Credit to https://github.com/mrdaemon for the working .csproj file.