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Visual D - Visual Studio extension for the D programming language
https://github.com/dlang/visuald

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Visual D - Visual Studio extension for the D programming language

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README 

        
 Visual D

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This is the README file for Visual D, a 

Visual Studio package providing both project management and language services



Copyright (c) 2010-2025 by Rainer Schuetze, All Rights Reserved



Visual D aims at providing seamless integration of the D programming language

into Visual Studio. 



For installer download, more documentation and build instructions, please visit http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html.

Use forum http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D.ide for questions and the D bug tracker https://issues.dlang.org/ to report issues.



Major Features

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* Custom Project management

  - all DMD command line options accessible

  - support for GDC and LDC

  - support for resource compiler

  - custom build commands

  - pre/post custom build steps

  - automatic dependency generation

  - automatic link between dependend projects

  - new project templates



* Integration with VC projects

  - seamless integration through build customization

  - DMD and LDC command line options accessible

  - parallel compilation



* Debugger

  - VS debugger extension providing D expression evaluation

  - integrates mago, a debug engine dedicated to D

  - integrates cv2pdb for debugging executables built with the Digital Mars toolchain



* Language Service

  - syntax highlighting with special version/debug and token string support

  - underlining of syntactical errors 

  - semantic analysis for code completion, goto definition and tool tips

  - import statement completion

  - parameter info tooltips 

  - smart indentation

  - comment/uncomment selection 

  - highlight/jump-to matching braces

  - code snippets

  - display of scope at caret position

  - code outlining

  - paste visually from clipboard ring

  - code definition window

  - search and replace dialog based on D tokenizer

  - browse information displayed in object browser and class view 

  - help on language and runtime library



* Other

  - symbol/file search window

  - profiler window 

  - C++ to D conversion wizard 

  - [dustmite](https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite) integration

  - disassembly view synchronized with source code

  

* Supported Visual Studio versions

  - VS 2008 - VS 2022, Community, Professional or Enterprise versions

  

* Includes tools to

  - convert some idl/h files of the Windows SDK to D

  - convert all idl/h files from the Visual Studio Integration SDK to D

  - convert C++ code to D (which was targeted at machine-translating

    the DMD front end to D, but this was abandoned)

  - convert Java code to D (which was targeted at machine-translating

    parts of the Eclipse plugin Descent to D, but this was abandoned)

  

* Completely written in D2



License information

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This code is distributed under the terms of the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.

For more details, see the full text of the license in the file LICENSE_1.0.txt.



The installer comes with a number of additional products:

- cv2pdb: https://github.com/rainers/cv2pdb by Rainer Schuetze

- mago: http://dsource.org/projects/mago_debugger by Aldo Nunez

- DParser: https://github.com/aBothe/D_Parser by Alexander Bothe



Installation

------------



The click-through-installer will guide you through the installation process. 

The installer lets you select the Visual Studio Version for which you want 

Visual D to be installed. It will always install for all users, not only for 

a single user.



To compile your application, you must have DMD, LDC or GDC installed.

For LDC and GDC, after installation you must setup Visual D to find them: see

Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->Visual D Settings->LDC Directories

and GDC Directories, respectively.



Changes

-------

For documentation on the changes between this version and

previous versions, please see the file CHANGES.



Building Visual D

-----------------

In a nutshell:



- install the Visual Studio SDK

- start Visual Studio VS 2013+ and load solution visuald_vs10.sln

- select configuration "Debug COFF32|Win32"

- build project "build"

- build project "VisualD"



For more information, visit

http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/BuildFromSource.html



More Information

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For more information on installation, a quick tour of Visual D with some

screen shots and feedback, please visit the project home for Visual D at 

[http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html](http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html).



There's a forum dedicated to IDE discussions (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D.ide), where you can leave your comments and suggestions.

Bug reports can be filed to the [D bugzilla database](https://issues.dlang.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=D) 

for Component VisualD.



Have fun,

Rainer Schuetze