The line number margin in Visual Studio is being tightened up to maximize horizontal space in the editor. I'm irrationally excited about this.

Coming soon...

It's been a long time coming and now it's finally here

This is in both VS2022 and 2026; a year ago you could write a class name and it will suggest the correct package and using.

now it's impossible to have decent suggestion.. but "Fix with ******* copilot" (that doesn't work)

Coming soon to VS 2026 Insiders

Read all about it in the announcement blog post, check out the release notes, and download Visual Studio 2026 Insiders.

I hope you will try it out and have a good time with it.

Overall quite enjoying Visual Studio 2026, but I did think this was funny!

Its so aggressive, I'm barely done writing the word main and it suggests a whole HelloWorld, with absolutely no context, literally the first C file in the source dir.

I don't even have Copilot in my extensions and it does this, I want IntelliSense for C not bad AI autocomplete.

Anyone know how to fix this in Visual Studio ? or should I stick to vscode for C too ? I used vscode for years as a web developer but I'm new and learning C, it was fine when it autocompleted React snippets but as a beginner in C its really fucking annoying.

I've had a lot of problems with IntelliSense slowness and lag in my VS 2019 (16.8.2). After trying to determine what could be the issue and trying out various things I've finally came across few posts which describe the same issues that I have (slow navigation through intellisense popup list, slow auto-complete).

The problem is that my monitor refresh rate (144Hz) seems to affect visual studio intellisense.

Here is more information:

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/43314

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/961285/intellisense-scrolling-list-via-a-keyboard-is-lagg.html?childToView=1076792#comment-1076792

The workaround (at least for me) is to open a VS solution (.sln) via double-clicking and not through Start page or Open project/solution dialog.

I'm just sharing this here in case someone else has similar problems.

Edit:

Thanks to u/RainShineYesWine and u/jd1378 for comments that limiting the application refresh rate (via NVidia control panel) seems to also help. I can confirm that on my side the original workaround does not seem to work reliably while their method seems to work fine (at least for me ... for the moment :)). Here are their original comments on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/VisualStudio/comments/k4gov3/your_vs2019_intellisense_might_be_slow_if_you/gebt6l5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/VisualStudio/comments/k4gov3/your_vs2019_intellisense_might_be_slow_if_you/geic057?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

TLDR: You need to use NVidia control panel and limit the refresh rate to 60Hz to following applications (you need to do it for both, it does not work if you do it only for devenv.exe):

• devenv.exe

• ServiceHub.Host.CLR.x86.exe

WHAT IS THE FIRST ONE like where are the filters this is an endless rabit hole i swear on everything i love this not fake try it ur self just start typing the letters of something bad slowly and it will suggest something

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.

Can anyone help me with how to download the Visual Studio 2022 Community version? I searched everywhere on the Microsoft website. There are only the Enterprise and Professional editions available for download. I need it for my university assignment. Can anyone help me?

Apparently Microsoft has been removing all references and links to VS 2022 from pretty much everywhere in their websites. Even if you search for Visual Studio 2022, and download the (supposedly) 2022 installer, it will download the 2026 installer. They've made most VS2022 links redirect to 2026 ones.

Anyway, after a bit of digging in this subreddit I found the one working page that lets you download Visual Studio 2022, and I'm making it a post so that others can find it more easily.

Here's the link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-history

Community Version: https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_community.exe (or just scroll down to "Current 17.14")

Hi, Mads here from the VS team. I wanted to take a look at all the ways we are using code comments today and attempt to improve it. As usual, I put my thinking into Visual Studio extensions. The images in the post shows some of the new and old ideas now found in this extension.

Several users have tried this for the past several weeks, and we've iterated quite a bit on the feature set. It's now ready for prime time.

Go check it out and let me know what you think and which of these features you like or dislike.

Download here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.commentsvs

Mermaid diagrams are now rendered in the markdown preview pane (among other places) inside Visual Studio.

Coming soon...

I was amazed by the performance of VS2026 gui. Is it made with WinUI or WPF?

I would like to know the reason of removing a perfectly working tool to promote a suboptimal copilot feature. Let me explain. In the previous version on visual studio I had installed (17.13.5) I had the "upgrade assistant" extension, I used that extension to upgrade only the .csproj file to the new SDK style, and it worked very well for my use case. It was just 3 clicks: right-click on the project -> left-click on the upgrade option -> left-click on "convert to SDK style" and in few seconds it was done. Today I updated visual studio to the latest release (17.14.16) and found out that the extension is now incompatible, I searched around and I read that it is now built in. Cool, I said. I continued with my work only to find out that the upgrade function, now built in, is renamed to "modernize" with the copilot icon, I clicked it and it opened the copilot window where now I have to write and describe to chat-gpt what I need to do. Ok fine, it's a bit slower but not that much, I continued. I press enter and I noticed that it was taking more time to convert my project and when I checked the result I noticed that the conversion is very poor quality compare to what I could get with the previous method. Sorry for the long rant, but I have a genuine question. Why can't we have both? Why copilot have to replace perfectly functioning tools instead of beeing an additional feature?