It's so frustrating, does no one else suffer from this? I'll click on a control, right click properties and the damned window remains blank. Anyone know of a fix? I'm using visual studio community 18.6.1
If you build a solution and several projects fail you get a bunch of errors... fine looks great. Then if you specifically compile another individual project... the error list does not clear and start over with just the errors from the project specifically being compiled.
The work around is to restart vs. So annoying.
Also the automatic flipping from the "output" tab to the "errors" tab is super annoying. If I specifically activated the output tab... why would anyone automatically change it? Grrrrr
im trying to do unity learn learn to code, but the autofill spoils to much, ill be using visual studio signed out in the meantime, thanks!
Hello everyone,
recently i cancelled my GHCP Pro subscription following the cost changes coming June 1st. But i was wondering if i could just subscribe, let's say, to the DeepSeek API (or any other pay-as-you-go model) and keep using the extension with BYOK configured, or if even using only the "harness" of the IDE extension require an active paying subscription.
For context, i do a lot of .NET backend development (recently mainly with .NET Aspire) and the Visual Studio 2026 integration with MCP and debugger context is not really anything i've found elsewhere.
Thanks a lot in advance
It shows that whenever I try to input. I'm on Windows, though. How to fix that?
The UX of the problem report page is a disaster. I am mainly a backend guy and I could make a better one :(
new project without changing anything already contains build errors. i haven't seen anyone having this problem, qt vs tools, cmake, and qml extension is already downloaded. what am i missing ?
Please see the attached screenshot. When I'm attempting to "Apply" CoPilot suggestions in Visual Studio, often times it will have hallucinations, like suggesting multiple code changes when the CoPilot text response only shows one, and /or wanting to delete HUGE chunks of existing code arbritrarily (see #1 in the screenshot).
While I realize that it's an imperfect AI, and it will make mistakes, I would like it if there would be a function sitting alongside the "Tab to accept Alt+Del to discard F8 go to next" helper (#2 in the screenshot) that would allow you to press a key and mark the suggested change as a hallucination, so that you NEVER see that hallucination ever again. There must be some way to make this happen, either with a local database on the client side, or at the very LEAST just a config file that can be constantly updated. Then the CoPilot portion that actually suggests the code changes can use it as a reference and ignore any "blacklisted hallucinations".
Thinking pseudo-code wise (since I have no idea what code or language CoPilot uses), there should be a way during runtime to have some sort of List or Dictionary of HashSet that can be loaded, updated, and stored locally (so that it can be deleted or manually modified if desired).
This way the human coder's brain can assist the AI in assisting them!!!
I've also requested this over at the Microsoft Developer's forum on their official website and on the GitHub website itself. Hopefully that will make some movement!
It took me a while to figure out I can "Continue" in this dialog box by clicking the green arrow. It looks like an options menu, not a button panel.
If I were color-blind it may even stand out less, looking more or less grey. Such could cause or contribute to an ADA lawsuit. I'm just the messenger: UI needs work. Thanks.
As everything else at Microslop, enshittification has caught Visual Studio 2026, it is their biggest regression so far.
Is it possible to change back the UI of the IDE to use cornered edges instead of these slop rounded edges?
Thanks!
I've been working on this for about 7 months and figured it's time to share properly.
AI assistants in VS (Copilot, Claude via custom model) only see text — your open file, maybe some context. They don't understand your solution structure, can't resolve types, don't know who calls what. So they grep and guess.
It's a Visual Studio extension that exposes Roslyn's semantic analysis through MCP (Model Context Protocol). Your AI assistant gets actual compiler-grade tools — 41 of them:
Real example: searching for "WhisperFactory" — grep returns 47 matches across tests, docs, comments. vs-mcp returns "class, Whisper.net namespace, line 16" in one call.
🎬 Watch the 2-min demo on YouTube
Works with VS 2022 and VS 2026. Install from Marketplace, enable MCP in Copilot settings, done.
vs-mcp gives your AI eyes on your code inside Visual Studio. I also built two complementary MCP servers:
Together: your AI has compiler-grade intelligence on your code AND every library you use. More at example4.ai.
Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or setup!
Tool calling does not seem to be working in BYOM model with Gemini 2.5 pro (Visual Studio 2026)
Instead I just see the below kind of response:
I have literally no files related to visual studio on my computer but every time I run the installer. it downloads this broken shortcut and somehow it opens the installer but when I try to download something, it keeps failing and once I close the installer app, I can't open it again because the only file is a broken shortcut. How do I fix this, I literally cannot install any version of it. Also, when I run the installer, it immediately goes to 100% on both bars as if I already have it which I don't.
