The current version of DartVS available to install (v0.6) in Visual Studio is very basic and uses regex for syntax highlighting, and shells out to DartAnalyzer on a per-file basis for errors/warnings. This is not terribly reliable!

A new version of the extension (v0.8/v1) is in-progress which uses Google's Dart Analysis service and is much faster and more reliable, however it's not yet ready for release :(

• Live in v0.6
  • Use DartAnalyzer from the SDK when saving any .dart file and report errors/warnings/hints to the Visual Studio error list
  • Clicking errors navigates to the correct place in code
  • Mostly-reliable Syntax Highlighting
• In Development for v1
• Planned for after v1

• Install from the Visual Studio Gallery

If you wish to use a different version of the SDK than the one bundled with DartVS (for example, a dev channel build), you can:

• Download and unzip a Dart SDK
• Set the DART_SDK environment variable to point at the SDK root

Please send your feedback/issues/feature requests! :-)

• GitHub Issues: DartVS/issues
• Twitter: @DanTup
• Google+: Danny Tuppeny
• Email: danny+dartvs@tuppeny.com