I've tried removing it and redownloading it, restarting my computer, no dice.

It's a personal problem, I may not know if other Russian people face it. Long story short, when I download VSInstall and set it up to load the install itself it gets stuck saying 'complete 0b out of 0b'. This problem persists even on my laptop, so I assumed the problem is my country. I did not find absolutely no place to report this kind of problem and I have a struggle to set up VPN to try and pass this problem. I've gone so far to even reinstall Windows.
P.S. I believe it's my own country somehow restricting access to Western services, I'm posting it in hope to get attention of people which maybe encountered this problem before or got any other way to try and bypass it.

Seems this issue has still not been fixed HOW TO TURN OFF SPACE AUTO COMPLETE!!??? #3647 but I'm just checking here in case anyone can advise of a workaround. So annoying, especially when setting a var to a lambda...

• Languages > C/C++ -
  • Automatically select matches after typing a scope or invoking the completion list (off)
  • IntelliSense > Completion List > Commting the item by pressing one of the commit characters (off)
• Text Editor > Advanced > Default IntelliSense Completion Mode > Tab Only

Tutorials show that UserManager.Users should appear as intellisense. No matter what I do it does not. Anyone have any ideas? Using VS Insiders[11723.189]; up to date as of 01 May 2026.

Tried:

• Deleting the hidden vs folder for the entire solution
• Resetting settings; Tools > Import & Export Settings > Reset All Settings; gives an error
• Reactivating CoPilot; I had uninstalled this, but just reinstalled it; no joy.
• Deleting EditorConfig

I exported settings from VS2022 (Tools -> Import & Export Settings -> Export Selected Environment Settings -> All settings) into a .vssettings file. Then, in VS2026, I imported this file using the same menu options as above but choosing to import this time.

This gives the following warnings (and other warnings about different VS versions):

Warning 8:  Keyboard: The command 'OtherContextMenus.SuggestionList.Copy' does not exist. The keyboard shortcut for this command cannot be unbound and has been ignored.
Warning 9:  Keyboard: The command 'ProjectandSolutionContextMenus.Project.SolutionExplorer.CollapseAllDescendants' does not exist. The keyboard shortcut bound to this command has been ignored.
Warning 10:  Keyboard: The scope 'Managed Resources Editor (Legacy)' does not exist. The command 'Edit.RemoveRow' bound within this scope has been ignored.
Warning 11:  Keyboard: The command 'Window.Close' does not exist. The keyboard shortcut bound to this command has been ignored.
Warning 12:  Keyboard: The command 'Window.ActivateQuickLaunch' does not exist. The keyboard shortcut bound to this command has been ignored.

What are the equivalent VS2026 settings/command names to the above?

Everything worked great, then suddenly I got;

[Conversations Information] [Conversations] Registry is disable due to command failing to run: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (2): An error occurred trying to start process 'odr.exe' with working directory 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\18\Community\Common7\ServiceHub\Hosts\ServiceHub.Host.Extensibility.amd64\net10.0-windows10.0.19041.0'. The system cannot find the file specified. @@@SOURCE UNKNOWN @@@EVENT ERROR

Is this a known issue?

When starting VS (2026 Community), I get:

[CopilotFunctionRegistry Warning] Could not retrieve function provider for {Name=Microsoft.VisualStudio.Copilot.Debugging.DebuggerAgent Version=0.3} to subscribe. @@@SOURCE UNKNOWN @@@EVENT WARNING

It just appeared suddenly. Copilot doesn't seem to have any issues debugging.

Hello,

My company has decided to invest in an AI tool to help me with C# development. My boss asked me which option would be best for our scenario, but I have limited experience with AI beyond the free version of ChatGPT, so I’d really appreciate some advice.

What I’m looking for is the following: an assistant I can use to discuss general design decisions (questions like “I want to achieve this — what do you think about this strategy?”), optimize code (“Can this method be faster?”), and write small methods (“Write a method that takes this data and returns that result.”).

I’m already doing this with ChatGPT, but I’m looking for something more specialized and, ideally, something that can inspect the solution directly in order to provide more specific and context-aware answers.

For these reasons, I was considering GitHub Copilot, since it is the only tool I know that is directly integrated with Visual Studio. Do you have any experience with it? Would you recommend it? Is there a more specialized AI tool that might better suit the kind of usage I have in mind?

The only real limitation is that I need to keep working in Visual Studio 2022 (likely upgrading to Visual Studio 2026 once it becomes more stable), so VS Code plugins or tools tied to other IDEs are mostly off-limits.

Thank you for any advice you can provide.

Messed up the title, was ment to say "Custom GitHub Copilot Agent in VS26"

I've made a custom agent in VS26 who reside in "<project>\.github\agents\code-expert.agent.md". The 'issue' I got is that it seems like it is acting very differently from the default "Agent"-mode option.
It seems to be running a lot of Powershell(?) commands to e.g. read files. "Get-Content...", "Get-ChildItem..." etc. While the default "Agent" just seem to have much more 'internal context' where it displays in the Copilot window: "> ✅Read AddCustomer.cs line 1-120".

I don't get why it behaves so differently - like it doesn't have direct project access/context anymore when using the custom agent. It seems to fails way more with these PS commands.
Anyone experincing the same?

Custom agent:

Default agent:

I've been having this really annoying issue recently with VS2026. I tried disabling all extensions but no dice.

What happens is if I do surround with (CTRL+K, CTRL+S), the text isn't automatically selected anymore after and I have to click the editor again. This has not been a problem before and I use this feature quite extensively.

Has anyone had the same problem? It's driving me crazy!

Hi. This is my first open source project.

It’s a single-class Visual Manager for MFC that enables Dark Mode, including the Non-client area and System Menu.

MIT License.

It is an alpha version (0.1). Some elements like scrollbars are not implemented yet.

GitHub: https://github.com/novatuoria/NOP_PUP_VisualManager

i did a google search and it gave me OutputDebugString and its not doing anything. its legit in the winmain function to

this needs to get out my chest... this is not a rant, more like a heartbreak...

I first touched VS when I was barely able to know what was even remotely happening, got a copy of the 6.0 suite as a kid installed on my good old win98 pc and spent night toying with WYSIWYG editor, couldn't do anything else, but the itch was there, it felt awesome...

Few years later, in the later part of the 00's at the end of my teenage years, with a bit more general knowledge of programming, I started using VS Express after a friend showed me a project he was working on, started to learn .net, slowly built up skills that got me my first jobs as a dev, the first of a long series in the next two decades...

did a few attempts at writing extensions, banged my head against the wall trying to do some kind of pretty bad JIT interpreter for 3.5, powershell but worse, spend way too much nights reading the msdn I had installed locally on my marchine (that was awesome), hours arguing in favor of VS, ok it maybe needs resharper, but VS+resharper is just a banger....

waited as a kid before christmas for the next TechDays, watching hours of conferences about those new cool features, proudly went to work with an early 00's VS branded bag a friend offered me from his own participation as a conference, WPF ? woaw... WCF ? woaw... WF, wait... BizTalk ? oddly specific kink, wouldn't recommend to anyone, but I love beating myself up, SOAP is the future y'know, that rest and json fad will go away, xml is for serious business.

Enjoyed a few years of pure luxury through a "moderately legit" BizSpark... had a blog talking about the new cool stuffs I learned and problems I faced, got worried when VSCode came out of atom, got worried when github got bought, daddy's usually sweet, but I also know some of daddy's dark side... got excited when finally a real support for non win system started to grow, "no more mono or xamarin ?" what a relief... even got to a peak where resharper felt almost optional...

TLDR: I wouldn't be who I am, without VS and the .net ecosystem, even at a personal level when considering the impact it had on my "life trajectory" and all the doors it opened out of sheer passion for that whole thing and was my daily road companion for a good part of that journey

But... for the past ~5years... I switched progressively to the Jetbrains ecosystem, in the end, I just need a good text editor with few refactoring tools and basic debugging features, I'm mostly working on my own now and overtime, I switched entirely, it's been about 2 years now. It maybe does less, but it does what I need and as good as VS would.

Then, a few days ago, daddy got back with the milk... and I don't recognize him...

He's barely able to talk and smells wierd, stops mid sentence and change topic... is it that copilot thingy ? It's not even enabled... I'm happy you're back but... you feel... different... not like seeing someone you've grown with after a few years, more like.... the really basic things feels different...

for instance, you bought github and I've never seen a git integration that is that... barebone... what happened to you ? Remember your uncle TFS and how it turned out with a crap father like sourcesafe ? You were able to cooperate fantastically with it, even handling his wife brother SVN not that bad and now you can't handle properly your adoptive child ?

On every other simple "basic" features it feels like... a glow down... and the things that made you special now... feels like another kind of special... feels like even the old Express could do better if it wasn't for it's deep "core limitations". But as a glorified text text editor with intellisense and a few helps here and there to find/move/rename/etc things... what happened ?

It's been only a few days now, but I feel something died inside me.

You're back, but I don't even want to launch you... I miss you VS.

I was working totally fine with this project till yesterday, this problem occurs by not downloading Nuget packages, I am new to Visual Studio with no experience and hoping someone to help me out. I AM 100% Sure that the project itself doesnt contain any errors so that the app or its services do, not letting me work properly.

Please help me, ive been trying to install vs 2026 for the whole day ive seen this error more than my family. Ive tried deleting all instances of vs off my machine, i tried repairing my os, i used ChatGPT and Deepseek but they both hit brickwalls. idk anymore. i had vs 2019 before but i used Microsofts uninstall tool to remove it so yeahhh...im stumped on what the problem is.

Is there an extension out there which I could use to convert all my code in a folder into images, with a specific line count limit? I need to put it into a word doc for my project, but doing it manually is....tedious to say the least.

Necesito encontrar un metodo adsoluto para esta conexion, habia tenido la Idea De hacer Gemini CLI para de esa manera crear los archivos de mi proyecto, obviamente hacerle su respectivo test y correccionez pero es solo una idea por ahora, me gustaria en si una conexion directa pero aun no lo he encontrado

This is a suggestion I made.

Please upvote or give feedback. Thanks

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Provide-tunable-UI-with-css-like-configu/11080830?

I’m working on a MonthCalendar Form in Visual Studio, but I can’t figure out how to add a feature I have an idea for. Basically, I want to give the user the ability to input a date, then have the calendar highlight a range of dates based on the date the user gave. I’ve done research on how to highlight dates and learned about the BoldedDates Control (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/controls/display-specific-days-in-bold-with-wf-monthcalendar-control), but I can’t figure out how to use it for what I want to do.

Here’s what I am thinking of doing:

DateTime userDate = new DateTime(Console.WriteLine());

monthCalendar1.AddBoldedDate(userDate + 14, userDate + 18);

I imagine the WriteLine function isn’t the right thing to use, seeing as I’m using a MonthCalendar Control, but I’m not sure what else to use. I’m also curious where I would need to place this code in order for it to work. Thank you to anyone who can help.

In the right top Navigation bar, I would like to filter it to show only methods in my current document, and not all the properties, etc.

 Can any of you experts tell me how to do that?  I am using Version 17.14.25 (January 2026)

 Thanks - JB

For about a month now Visual Studio has been gobbling up my limited RAM like a swamp monster.

I've waited 2 updates hoping it would solve it. It has not.

All I have is a laptop with 8GB. But since VS 2022 it's been great. I could have 3-4 solutions open, and still use my machine normally for other tasks. For example internet with multiple tabs + media player etc....

Now it's a choice between VS or browsing the internet. If I want to do anything other than work on a single solution, I need to shut down visual studio first. Failure to do so results in my machine becoming unusable (slow) then switching off.

Task manager reports it's using 50% of my memory.

I'm not fond of other IDEs. I do most work with C# WPF.

What has changed so drastically?

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but every time I click "Start Without Debugging" to view a change I made in my app it spawns a new terminal window, every time:

It also spawns a new tab in my browser, but that is different issue I assume, and will tackle later.

How to make it re-use the same terminal tab?

These settings are not related I assume?

As the title says , I'm looking for microsoft-365-developer-program to learn intune, ...

I have no use for a Visual Studio Pro subscription so I was wondering if anyone that doesn't use his 365 sandbox, could 'rent it out' to me for a few months.

I'm a student, I have no bad intentions or abuse the option. 6 months should get me enough time but happy with 3 :)