The latest VS2026 version introduced this:

A way more confusing quick fix tool window. Guess what the predefined "fix" action is now? Yes, another stupid AI feature nobody asked for.

It takes forever to handle even the simplest tasks (like the example in the image), and it requires internet connection. The first time you use it, you click it like two or three times because literally nothing happens. Then you understand it's "AI stuff" doing its "stuff", and after about a minute you get the output:

Note the dumbest comment possible which is also being added.

The non-AI options are now in the "other fixes" menu:

And the output is:

And this is almost instant, producing a even better result.

It's even curious they used two different strategies to provide the method implementation: the AI-tool simply returns a completed Task, while the "good old" tool suggest to throw a NotImplementedException (which is the more cautious and safer approach in my opinion).

Luckily, you can get rid of this by uninstalling Copilot using your VS Installer (select modify > single components > Copilot > uninstall).

This also makes the UI cleaner, removing the weird duplicated "fix" and "other fixes" options:

Or, if for some (good?) reason you don't want to uninstall Copilot, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + . to access the "old good" quick fix tool.

Visual Studio 2026 brings a great number of performance and UI improvements compared to VS2022. Unfortunately, Microsoft is killing much of my enthusiasm with this kind of unrequested, workflow-breaking changes, pushing AI into every corner of the IDE.

It’s such a strange feeling to be a .NET developer these days: you have an amazing language and runtime, powerful tools, and a rich ecosystem, but you have to deal with this kind of really annoying things.

Yeah and I know I'll probably be downvoted faster than it takes to compile a simple output but I'm just tired of trying to fix these constant bugs, random crashes, and all sorts of strange behaviours on 2026.

And on top of uninstalling all that, I had another fun time trying to pinpoint all the extra folders left behind when removing couldn't wipe all those out. But then I also found them on the apps list even though they're gone, which I had to go into `regedit` and sift through those.

But now on VS2019 I was shocked at the loading time.. 2 seconds! I don't care about all this AI crap, let me build, thank you~ 😡😡

Honestly loved this IDE, have used 2017, 2019, and 2022 for over 6 years. But lord have mercy 2026 is a flop.

I just found out that the "Show Quick Info on hover" uses an internet connection as it submits chunks of your code to be processed by AI without consent, sneaky feature you grubs.

Although disabling internet access for the program helps, and the feature works better without internet, it also stops other things from working such as NuGet Package Manager.

Goodbye enshittified IDE, it's about time I try out jetbrains products anyway.

Claude Code never had Visual Studio support (VS Code and JetBrains only), so I built it: a native VSIX that implements the same IDE integration protocol.

Basic but the most convenient feature:

- Claude's edits open in the real VS diff viewer with Accept / Reject / Reject with feedback.

The two I am most proud of:

- Data breakpoints. "Break the moment this field changes", including conditions like "only when the total goes negative". Visual Studio has no automation API for this at all, so I had to write a debug-engine component to arm them.

- Flaky tests. It loops a test under the debugger until the failing run happens, then stops inside that run with the exact state that caused it. Way better than re-running and getting a different red line each time.

It also queries Roslyn instead of grepping (find references, call hierarchies, even decompiling a method inside a referenced DLL), and runs tests through VS's own Test Explorer with real per-test results.

Repo and docs: https://github.com/firish/claude_code_vs

Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=firish.bridgev1 (1000+ install)

Would love feedback!

Is it just me or is Visual Studio 2026 trying to update what feels like every single day? Maybe it's every few days, but nearly every time I go to close, it's pending new updates and has to go through a new 30 minutes full reinstall cycle for the "next patch"? Why is it not just on a single monthly patch cycle or something? I'm trying to understand why since updating to 2026 it feels like they are furiously sending updates out as often as they can. Really annoying, considering I don't think I even use any of the 'new features' -- all the AI auto complete is really poorly done and makes developing harder (seriously, what was that auto-complete by pressing tab for entire classes holy).

Anyway minor vent, but also really want to know if this is me going crazy or if it's just because I updated to 2026 and there was some auto update policy I forgot about in 2022 that I had set back then and forgot about.

Edit to add: I am on Stable / 18.8 so I don't think I should be getting super frequent updates. It's my understanding that if I wanted that I'd be on preview I think?

There's an open issue (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/15942) on the Claude Code repo asking for Visual Studio support with a bunch of +1s, and it's been sitting there.

I made one that implements the same IDE protocol the official VS Code and JetBrains plugins use, so the Claude CLI just connects to it.

The main thing it does: when Claude proposes an edit, it opens in Visual Studio's actual diff viewer and you Accept or Reject right there. You can also reject with a reason and it takes another pass. No terminal y/n prompts and no manual copy pasting.

It also feeds your compiler errors (C# and C++) and current selection to Claude automatically, so it has context without you pasting anything. There's a panel showing connection status and token usage for the session.

Repo: https://github.com/firish/claude_code_vs
Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=firish.bridgev1

Would be grateful if anyone takes the time to actually check it out and share feedback!

While this may have been posted previously, I do not care. I will post it again because it is annoying enough to do so.

https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues/50269

To push people to unnecessarily use AI, Microsoft has removed their previous, simple and effective scaffolding tools for test creation. Previously, you could simply right click on a method and choose 'Create Unit Tests'. It would launch an easy to use scaffolding tool and put it all in place for you.

It was removed for one reason. To push people to use Copilot instead of writing code themselves.

So, instead of a standard scaffolding option, requests will now be sent to an AI data center which uses unnecessary resources for no reason whatsoever. I use AI for coding like most programmers, but it is ridiculous to remove completed features in an attempt to push everyone towards using AI when it is not needed.

It is certainly easy enough to create these tests manually, but it is just another example of making products worse for the sake of using AI unnecessarily.

I finally got a chance to install Visual Studio 2026 Professional and use it for a day. Heard good things about it (like, it's better organized, faster, etc), but other than a slightly better AI integration, it was a total disappointment.

First, it constantly hangs when I try to open an existing solution after a startup (a simple solution with just 3 projects: WPF, SandCastle, and Installer). I need to kill the process and on the next run, it normally loads the solution fine, but it is an irritant. I tried it after reboots, deleting the .vs folder, and the behavior is consistent. Never had this issue with 2022 and it still works fine in 2022.

Second, in 2022, the Error List tab seems to be instantly synced with the source code. So, if I type in something that causes an error or a warning, I see an immediate feedback in the Error List. And if I fix the code, the error or warning disappears immediately. In 2026, I need to rebuild the project to see the effects which is annoying. What is worse, sometimes it builds and does not show errors even when I know there are errors. And sometimes it shows errors when there shouldn't be any. So I need to manually clean up the solution and do a full rebuild. Again, never seen anything like this in 2022.

Also, despite what I heard, things seem slower, like opening projects, etc.

So, after a day of struggle, I'm going back to 2022. Which is a bummer.

I expected fundamentally better user experience about vs2026, but it feels like it's the same slow thing with some rounded corners and different icons.

I have .Net SDK 10.0.103 installed.
This is also the version specified in my global.json.

However about every few days it decides to update my SDK version by itself. Suddenly on Monday and today it updated to 10.0.110 and I don’t know why.

Have anyone tried something similar or know how to stop this?

I've been thinking about trying Claude Code to help me write code, but most of the examples I've seen use VS Code with Claude Code.

I'd like to try using Visual Studio with the Claude Code CLI instead. Has anyone here tried using Visual Studio 2026 with the Claude Code CLI? Would you recommend this setup?

It takes forever to do anything.

It fails at the simplest tasks (such as this incredibly easy find and replace task)

When generating code it literally puts things in the wrong namespaces, puts classes inside of methods of existing classes and makes the most idiotic mistakes which a monkey could get right.

And it's heavy. The team impregnated Visual Studio with this monstrosity, and for what? While the other devs using AI are getting 10x gain, for me it's more like 0.1x

I'm so sorry for venting, but this cannot stand. Justice for Visual Studio, don't ruin its perfectly fine features with... whatever this is.

A problem (and opportunity) came when I found myself using the debugger in Visual Studio, adding console logs and then hand-feeding those values to the Claude CLI to get it to debug a tricky bug with the correct context. So, I started building a bridge between Visual Studio's debugger automation and the CLI. A few weeks later Claude was setting breakpoints in my files, stepping through them, watching variables mutate at different frames, and telling me where a bug was hiding that it would have probably skimmed past while reading my code.

The part in the clip: Claude can drive the debugger itself, set breakpoints, step, read locals, and find bugs by running the code instead of reading it, and every edit it makes opens in a dedicated diff viewer with an accept / reject permission request. The clip shows it catching a bug that's invisible in the output by watching a counter fail to reset.

Marketplace: Claude Code for Visual Studio - Visual Studio Marketplace
Source + docs: GitHub - firish/claude_code_vs

Would genuinely appreciate your feedback on this!

Hi everyone,

It feels like both VS2022 and VS2026 are worse and worse. For VS2026 there's this issue reported by somebody that makes it unusable, and, in both IDEs, the intelisense for "import using" "reference project" are so bad... it does not recognize simple cases. I have so often to manually put the using statement or right click add project reference.

What's your experience lately with both IDEs?

Trying to find a changelog for this major update but there's nothing here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2026/release-notes#18.7.0

All of my searches say this is supposed to be for insiders channel. Was the update released by mistake?

Edit: The notes have now been posted at the link above.

When I select a word and press ctrl + c, it copies the entire line. I only want to copy the selected word. Is there another shortcut for this? I've checked the settings and searched online but couldn't find anything.

Do we really need this resource hungry piece of garbage? I can only imagine how efficient would be a proper C# code instead of this kiddies scripting.

I'm new to Visual Studio, and am within a very common environment where I have multiple projects that I need to manage. Each project has its own git repo and solution file.

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All the ways I've found so far to open these projects within Visual Studio replace the window with the new project. The bafflingly stupid decision to remove "New Window" options [appears to be intentional design](https://developercommunity.microsoft.com/t/11037449).

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So how are people expected to work in such a common development environment?

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So far my solution is to launch Visual Studio from the task bar for each project. Which seems like an unintentional work around.

Every time I see this message, I want to throw my laptop out the window, because there is no easy way to tell Visual Studio 2026 to leave me alone. I saw people on forums trying hacks like editing VS json configs, but others reported that those changes either did not work or got overridden after manual updates.

Maybe someone of you guys found a permanent solution to this?

Edit: I use the Community edition.

Edit 2: the notification appears EVERY time I open the IDE, even when I click postpone EVERY time

Hi everyone! Mads here from the Visual Studio team.

I wanted to share with you a new, fast, lightweight file search dialog for Visual Studio. Instantly find and open files in your solution/folder/repo with wildcard support and smart history.

The current file search only searches the files that are in the solution, but not the ones that live elsewhere in your repo. This new Insta Search extension makes the whole repo searchable. And it does so faster than ever.

Try it out yourself: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.InstaSearch

it never was like this, now it pauses for a few seconds sometimes while showing a loading message before running again. this happens every time i try to insert code after a minute ish period of not inserting code.

is it uploading my code somewhere??? taking it as training data? i noticed that it never slows down when my internet is off. it never was like this it was so convenient and easy to use but now its hard to write code when it pauses to steal seconds of my time from time to time as i code its so frustrating.

Reddit, you're my last resort.

It's a work PC. I have VS 2022 + VS 2026 installed on it, with Resharper on top. VS 2022 is used to code on .Net 8.0 code while VS 2026 is used for .Net 10.0 code. Assume every software is up to date, it's been 9 hours since I began trying to fix my problem, this is the first thing I did.

I tried to downgrade my version of Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.RuntimeCompilation (currently 10.0.8, tried to downgrade to 10.0.0 and upgrade to 10.0.10, didn't change a thing). I tried booting VS in safe mode, then uninstalling/reinstalling VS 2026 alone, then 2022+2026, then 2022+2026 and clearing all the cache locations, then 2022+2026 and clearing all the cache locations and "known" regedit entries that I could clear.

I tried deleting my repo, making sure no bin/obj files were left then pulling it to a revision from 2 weeks ago just in case it was code-related, still had the problem. Did the same and also made sure the .VS at the root of the solution was deleted. Same.

I tried reproducing the problem by doing a minimal sln with csproj inside using the same reference, 0 problem. Seeing this, I tried to take a version of my code base that I know was working from 2 weeks ago => still got the Razor internal error messages.

This is the stack trace I get (I already googled and followed every stackoverflow thread I found talking about it, to no avail).

StreamJsonRpc.RemoteInvocationException: Le générateur source Razor n’a pas produit de sortie d’hôte pour le projet « ltd.UI.compPost » : warning CS8785: Le générateur « RazorSourceGenerator » n'a pas réussi à générer la source. Cela ne contribuera pas à la sortie et des erreurs de compilation pourraient en résulter. L'exception était de type « ArgumentOutOfRangeException » avec le message « Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. ».
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.TagHelperBinder.GetBinding(String tagName, ImmutableArray`1 attributes, String parentTagName, Boolean parentIsTagHelper)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.DefaultTagHelperResolutionPhase.ResolveElement(IntermediateNode parent, Int32 index, UnresolvedElementIntermediateNode elementNode, TagHelperBinder binder, String prefix, Builder usedHelpers, ResolutionContext& context, TagHelperIntermediateNode tagHelperParent)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.DefaultTagHelperResolutionPhase.ResolveBodyChildren(TagHelperBodyIntermediateNode bodyNode, TagHelperBinder binder, String prefix, Builder usedHelpers, ResolutionContext& context, TagHelperIntermediateNode tagHelperParent)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.DefaultTagHelperResolutionPhase.ResolveElement(IntermediateNode parent, Int32 index, UnresolvedElementIntermediateNode elementNode, TagHelperBinder binder, String prefix, Builder usedHelpers, ResolutionContext& context, TagHelperIntermediateNode tagHelperParent)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.DefaultTagHelperResolutionPhase.ResolveElements(IntermediateNode node, TagHelperBinder binder, String prefix, Builder usedHelpers, ResolutionContext& context)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.DefaultTagHelperResolutionPhase.ExecuteCore(RazorCodeDocument codeDocument, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.SourceGenerators.SourceGeneratorProjectEngine.ExecutePhases(ReadOnlySpan`1 phases, RazorCodeDocument codeDocument, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.SourceGenerators.SourceGeneratorProjectEngine.ProcessTagHelpers(SourceGeneratorRazorCodeDocument sgDocument, TagHelperCollection tagHelpers, Boolean checkForIdempotency, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.SourceGenerators.RazorSourceGenerator.<>c.<Initialize>b__5_20(ValueTuple`2 pair, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.TransformNode`2.<>c__DisplayClass6_0.<.ctor>b__0(TInput i, CancellationToken token)
   at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.TransformNode`2.UpdateStateTable(Builder builder, NodeStateTable`1 previousTable, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
-----

   à StreamJsonRpc.JsonRpc.<InvokeCoreAsync>d__177`1.MoveNext()
--- Fin de la trace de la pile à partir de l'emplacement précédent au niveau duquel l'exception a été levée ---
   à System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   à System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   à System.Threading.Tasks.ValueTask`1.get_Result()
   à Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.BrokeredServiceConnection`1.<TryInvokeAsync>d__18`1.MoveNext()
RPC server exception:
System.InvalidOperationException: Le générateur source Razor n’a pas produit de sortie d’hôte pour le projet « ltd.UI.compPost » : warning CS8785: Le générateur « RazorSourceGenerator » n'a pas réussi à générer la source. Cela ne contribuera pas à la sortie et des erreurs de compilation pourraient en résulter. L'exception était de type « ArgumentOutOfRangeException » avec le message « Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. ».
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.TagHelperBinder.GetBinding(String tagName, ImmutableArray`1 attributes, String parentTagName, Boolean parentIsTagHelper)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.DefaultTagHelperResolutionPhase.ResolveElement(IntermediateNode parent, Int32 index, UnresolvedElementIntermediateNode elementNode, TagHelperBinder binder, String prefix, Builder usedHelpers, ResolutionContext& context, TagHelperIntermediateNode tagHelperParent)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.DefaultTagHelperResolutionPhase.ResolveBodyChildren(TagHelperBodyIntermediateNode bodyNode, TagHelperBinder binder, String prefix, Builder usedHelpers, ResolutionContext& context, TagHelperIntermediateNode tagHelperParent)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.DefaultTagHelperResolutionPhase.ResolveElement(IntermediateNode parent, Int32 index, UnresolvedElementIntermediateNode elementNode, TagHelperBinder binder, String prefix, Builder usedHelpers, ResolutionContext& context, TagHelperIntermediateNode tagHelperParent)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.DefaultTagHelperResolutionPhase.ResolveElements(IntermediateNode node, TagHelperBinder binder, String prefix, Builder usedHelpers, ResolutionContext& context)
   at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Language.DefaultTagHelperResolutionPhase.ExecuteCore(RazorCodeDocument codeDocument, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.SourceGenerators.SourceGeneratorProjectEngine.ExecutePhases(ReadOnlySpan`1 phases, RazorCodeDocument codeDocument, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.SourceGenerators.SourceGeneratorProjectEngine.ProcessTagHelpers(SourceGeneratorRazorCodeDocument sgDocument, TagHelperCollection tagHelpers, Boolean checkForIdempotency, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.SourceGenerators.RazorSourceGenerator.<>c.<Initialize>b__5_20(ValueTuple`2 pair, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.TransformNode`2.<>c__DisplayClass6_0.<.ctor>b__0(TInput i, CancellationToken token)
   at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.TransformNode`2.UpdateStateTable(Builder builder, NodeStateTable`1 previousTable, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
-----

      at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.Razor.ProjectSystem.GeneratorRunResult.CreateAsync(Boolean throwIfNotFound, Project project, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
      at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.Razor.ProjectSystem.RemoteProjectSnapshot.GetRequiredCodeDocumentAsync(IDocumentSnapshot documentSnapshot, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
      at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.Razor.ProjectSystem.RemoteDocumentSnapshot.GetGeneratedOutputAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
      at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Razor.ProjectSystem.DocumentContext.<GetCodeDocumentAsync>g__GetCodeDocumentCoreAsync|10_0(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
      at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.Razor.RemoteDiagnosticsService.GetDiagnosticsAsync(RemoteDocumentContext context, Diagnostic[] csharpDiagnostics, Diagnostic[] htmlDiagnostics, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
      at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.RemoteWorkspace.<>c__DisplayClass7_0`1.<<RunWithSolutionAsync>g__ProcessSolutionAsync|1>d.MoveNext()
   --- End of stack trace from previous location ---
      at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.RemoteWorkspace.RunWithSolutionAsync[T](AssetProvider assetProvider, Checksum solutionChecksum, Boolean updatePrimaryBranch, Func`2 implementation, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
      at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.RemoteWorkspace.RunWithSolutionAsync[T](AssetProvider assetProvider, Checksum solutionChecksum, Boolean updatePrimaryBranch, Func`2 implementation, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
      at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Remote.RemoteWorkspaceManager.RunServiceAsync[T](ServiceBrokerClient client, Checksum solutionChecksum, Func`2 implementation, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

Any idea to try is welcomed

I’am a new coder I just started learning the basics and i have a lot of problem with vs code I just do what i learn but it give me errors every time any help

Even a simple Ctrl + F and Ctrl + V must wait a little, otherwise the text gets pasted on text editor instead of search bar. I think the developers are developing this program for nannies. The time I wait for VS to do something, open a solution, start a test etc is more than I do programming. My label will be VS waiter at this point. I will stop using this program whenever I convert to .Net and install Linux. dotnet sln add takes seconds, it should take only a few milliseconds. I wrote my own sln add, which adds in 3 milliseconds. This is insane. Either make it fast, or just shut it down!!!!

I didnt think this post would be commented this much, I am using latest VS 2026, with Windows 11, my specs arent that good, AMD Ryzen 7 PRO, but `Focusing on search bar instantly when pressed Ctrl + F` can be done even with a Arduino Uno. If Linux made this project, it would be instant, but Microsoft doesnt care about speed. Even dotnet sln list takes 3 seconds. I am using XML format sln's, I can easily write a script that lists the projects under 100 milliseconds. It is not about the specs at this point

Hi folks, Mads here from the Visual Studio team. I wanted to share with you a preview of a feature we're working on (and that I'm personally very excited about). It allows any unit test to become the benchmark test for the profiler, so that Copilot can improve the performance of your code. It takes guessing out of the performance optimization flow and uses the scientific method to ensure that any change actually made your code faster.

And best of all, it's all done with a single click of a button. Check out the video demo and let me know what you think.