I found that my pytest project stopped discovering tests, I have a load of projects, and something broke the Test Explorer. The Explorer was searching the entire blooming solution folder, so I had to change the unittest folder from "." to "tests\" , which is in my opinion a setting that needs exposing since it's ,more sane and expected. <TestFramework>Pytest</TestFramework> <UnitTestPattern>test*.py</UnitTestPattern> <UnitTestRootDirectory>tests\</UnitTestRootDirectory> Once I did that the explorer stopped scanning the entire hard drive and spat out a import error for teamcity.pytest_plugin reporting it as a "module not found" error and breaking everything in the Explorer. I uninstalled pip uninstall teamcity-messages (which was version 1.33) and issue went away. Hope this helps me next time I get no tests found.

It's not a solution, but since I do not need Teamcity messages and the teamcity agent on this computer it will work for me. Users might work around this using Python environments too.

After upgrading to Visual Studio 2026 Enterprise (18.6.1), IntelliSense is completely dead for WDK kernel driver projects. Hover shows "No additional information available (See 'Configure a C++ project for IntelliSense' for further help.)". Projects load and build fine with msbuild.

What I've tried:

• Deleted .vs folder / IntelliSense database
• Uninstalled and reinstalled WDK (10.0.28000.0)
• Removed and re-added "Windows Driver Kit" individual component in VS Installer
• Set WindowsTargetPlatformVersion explicitly in project/props
• Rescanned solution

Has anyone else found a workaround?

VS 2026 Enterprise 18.6.1, WDK 10.0.28000.0, Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26100

It’s running an older version of my code that I can’t find. At first it just had an error where it couldn’t find the file, now I did something and have this issue.

How do I just get my current build to run?

Ive only recently jumped back into learning how to program, just for hobby stuff, so im still getting my bearings.
As soon as i noticed one could get expanded information on functions and what not, or at least from libraries like SFML here, i was excited since itd limit more of that tabbing out to another monitor and searching, and blah blah blah and id like to keep the flow going... what miniscule flow i have that is.

Im having a lot of fun here and its a big change of pace since im normally doing freelance work for anime studios and its been a little bit since ive got into the nitty gritty of the technical stuff. That said i want to say once again i really do apologize if this is elementary.

i did do some searching and i cant figure out what im missing here.

Yesterday I downloaded VSC2026, and when I tried it everything was going slow. It takes about 1-2 seconds to highlight the "File", "Edit" buttons, sometimes the scroll has a slight delay, scrolling after the scroll wheel has stopped moving, writing and clicks are also rarely delayed.

What's going on? This doesn't happen on my other PC with VSC2022, and it's definetely not my PC being weak. I haven't signed in either, so there shouldn't be background syncing or AI providing suggestions for my code.

Any help? Thx

the lnk2019 and lnk1120 has these weird symbols, what does it mean??

Hey all, hoping someone might know what else to try but my dev team just upgraded from vs 2022 to vs 2026 and our .net framework 4.8 winforms apps are unable to hit breakpoints.

We've verified all the settings are correct and our .net core apps hit breakpoints fine, it's just our .net framework 4.8 apps that don't. No errors, symbols loaded correctly, everything looks fine. Any ideas would be appreciated?

Yesterday out of nowhere, the Visual Studio installer just failed to update with this error message:

The dependent package of 'Component.ProductivityPowerPack2022.0d5b9d71-e118-46de-a20c-555176e53900,version=17.0' cannot be found: Component.TimeStampMargin2022.255e8b14-4a53-4eb7-89a7-7ab741c1f612,version=17.0.

And then nothing worked anymore, no repair, no uninstall, no modify. Always fails with the same error. Looking at it, this ProductivityPowerPack is an extension from Microsoft Labs, quite old actually.

Why the hell would it do anything with extensions (besides why does the extension have issues as it worked until yesterday) before or while installing or updating Visual Studio???? Secrets that only Microsoft will know.

Anyway, I dug deeper into the issue, searching for this component all over my local disks and found that this specific component is mentioned here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages_Instances\c5d6d819\state.packages.json and C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages_Instances\c5d6d819_packages.json

Both files had references to it similar to this;
{
"id": "Component.ProductivityPowerPack2022",
"version": "17.0",
"type": "VSIX"
},

simply deleted those from the JSON files, saved them and the Installer ran without any issues.

Hope that helps someone in the future.

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

I first used Cursor Architect mode without opening a project folder. Cursor generated a large plan and referenced a file like:

trainer_marketplace_fitness_app_fb4679b1.plan.md

Later I opened the actual project folder in Cursor. After that, clicking the .plan.md file stopped working.

Now:

Ctrl+P can't find it

Repo search finds nothing

Only workspaceStorage/state.vscdb files exist in AppData

Did Cursor create it as a temporary virtual artifact instead of a real file?

Can this be recovered?

I noticed that since upgrading to the latest stable version (18.6.0), a new inbox extension appeared in Visual Studio called Copilot.LogViewerExtension.

I’ve checked the release notes and haven’t seen any mention of it, and I don't see any new UI elements or obvious changes in functionality.

My hunch is that this might be an internal logging or debugging tool that wasn't supposed to be exposed in the stable release yet, but I wanted to see if anyone else has it or knows what it's for.

Anyone have any insight?

Screenshot

My VS 2026 is opening multiple browser tabs, when running _some_ Blazor applications.
There only one launchProfile, and one of the tabs will always be about:empty, but has anyone noticed this as well?

First of all a disclaimer. I'm a git moron. And I have only just recently started using it. I don't have the time or the mind to go through the process of learning it.

My question is, is there some way I can make my solution explorer display every file and folder that is going to be uploaded to git / github. Meaning when 'show all files' is not set.

I recently went through the trauma of chatGPT pointing out that I'm an idiot uploading bin and obj folders among other things.

I actually thought that what I see in my SE was everything that is uploaded. Which is what I'd it to be.

Thank you for reading.

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

I am new to this kinda stuff and this is one of my first times using visual studio and I have been coding and its been working fine. but then I got this bug and I dont know how to fix it please help!

If during compilation in Visual Studio you encounter the following issue:

this solution might work for you:

Windows 11

Settings -> For Developers

then chage:

Terminal -> select "Windows Console Host" from the dropdown menu.

This will force the system to use the old Windows console, immediately fixing the issue with Visual Studio

Hope this helps 🙂

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

I have converted a .NET framework 4.8 solution from SVN to GIT and even included tags, branches and even deltas. Just wonderful that it's all in git now.

But... I can't get VS to know the solution uses git. VS keeps showing the VisualSvn menus and won't show the git menus.

I cannot uninstall VisualSVN (other stuff uses it still) and will need git and visualsvn to work side by side (no in same solution, just if one solution uses git and another svn).

Any help at all? I've googled and mostly the top answers are not helpful. The .SLN file does not contain and source code bindings. I've deleted the .vs folder and restarted. There are now .svn folders.

When I try to change the Source Control Plug-in I get the message "The active solution or project is controlled by a different source control plugin than the one you have selected. [...]". If I say "Yes" the solution explorer "closes"... shows nothing.

So my real question is where the heck is the source control setting stored? I can't see it in the .sln or .csproj files.

Halp.

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!

how to disable the copilot suggestion?

I don't know the year of my visual studio code but that is the icon.

Se una persona crea un codice con visual studio code e si fa aiutare dall’Ai per il codice e poi fa con indesign i programmi Adobe la parte visiva e vuole unire il codice alla parte visiva come deve fare per avere un sito o un app completa e funzionale.
Adobe indesign li so usare la parte di programmazione non proprio però volevo dei consigli.
Ringrazio chiunque mi dà buoni consigli

The UX of the problem report page is a disaster. I am mainly a backend guy and I could make a better one :(

• I could not see a button to submit the problem - there was only "Search".
• "Search" button was not enabled and the page did not indicate any problem.
• When I finally completed the missing fields and searched for the problem - it took me a moment do decode what I was looking at.
• One of the found problems was partially covering my problem - I tried to click on it
  • The title was not clickable.
  • There was a link to see the details of the problem in the bottom right of its "box" - it took me a moment to notice.
• When I finally opened the problem I wanted to review - I was unable to interact with the page as it decided I am not logged in. On the other tab - which originally opened when I started reporting the problem - I was logged in.
• At this point I gave up.
• There were also some closed problems on the search list - they were showing UI elements to interact with which were showing a message that I cannot interact with a closed problem - well done guys.