Description

This is a hacky Roslyn-based LSP server for Visual Basic, based on csharp-ls.

vb-ls requires .NET 8 SDK to be installed. However it has been reported to work with projects using older versions of dotnet SDK, including .NET Core 3, .NET Framework 4.8 and possibly older ones too as it uses the standard Roslyn/MSBuild libs that Visual Studio & omnisharp does.

Acknowledgements

• vb-ls is not affiliated with Microsoft Corp;
• vb-ls is based on the work razzmatazz in csharp-ls
• vb-ls uses LSP interface from Ionide.LanguageServerProtocol;
• vb-ls uses Roslyn to parse and update code; Roslyn maps really nicely to LSP w/relatively little impedance mismatch;
• vb-ls uses ILSpy/ICSharpCode.Decompiler to decompile types in assemblies to C# source.

Installation

dotnet tool install --global vb-ls

See vb-ls nuget page

Settings

• vb.solution - solution to load, optional
• vb.applyFormattingOptions - use formatting options as supplied by the client (may override .editorconfig values), defaults to false

Clients

vb-ls implements the standard LSP protocol to interact with your editor. However there are some features that need a non-standard implementation and this is where editor-specific plugins can be helpful.

NeoVim

NeoVim 0.11+ can easily be configured using the vim.lsp.config api.

vim.lsp.config['vb_ls'] = {
    cmd = { 'vb-ls' },
    root_markers = { '*.sln', '*.slnx', '*.vbproj' },
    filetypes = { 'vbnet' },
    init_options = {
      AutomaticWorkspaceInit = true,
    },
}

vim.lsp.enable('vb_ls')

Be sure to also add the contents of the vim-config folder to your vim start directory to register improved syntax highlighting and the vbnet filetype.

Visual Studio Code

See vscode-vb-ls.