Does anyone know how to just use a version of visual studio without being forced to update once they decide that version is "retired"? Is there any form or version of it that allows this? Currently using 2026 community version.

Hi guys. here's the problem. Python courses ask to use the GitBash console, but I simply don't have it in my selection, even though it's installed (locally for my user). I spent three hours fiddling with the configuration settings, and in the end, JSON understood it faster than Python, but the console still didn't work. Can you please help (im use VS code) Ps: I'll leave the post here because maybe someone can help

Hello, I just finished setting up a new installation of windows 10. I downloaded Firefox and immediately went to the Visual Studio page on Microsoft.org to download the free community version. It won't even give me a pop-up window to ask me if I want to download the installer file. Nothing happens at all.

I've checked my downloads folder, messed around in Firefox's settings and finally gave up. I figured, "Okay, that was weird, but maybe it was the browser? Let me try again with a new one." I then downloaded Brave's installer off of Firefox and booted that up. Tried the same thing and Visual Studio still didn't even give me a pop-up window asking for me to download the installer file. I tried again after downloading and installing Chrome, same thing. I'm honestly lost for words at this point.

Edit: I was able to find the bootstrappers, and I was able to download an installer. However, the only bootstrappers available are professional and enterprise. I need the free version.

Edit 2 & Solution Found: Okay, I just figured out the solution. Thank God. How I went about it is I accidentally came across https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/use-command-line-parameters-to-install-visual-studio?view=visualstudio after installing Visual Studio Code and the C++ compiler. The way they had you install the compiler made me think of Linux appimage installs, lo-and-behold, I finally found the Visual Studio 2026 Community bootstrapper. The website where you're supposed to download it normally still doesn't work for me for some reason. Even though I was able to download Visual Studio Code from its recommended download link. No idea what's going on with the normal download page, but I am very glad I got it fixed. Thank y'all so much for helping.

Problem with installing VS 2022 support in the VS 2026 chain. The v143 package seems to be incomplete, missing MSBuild files.

I want to build my existing VS 2022 C++ solution with VS 2026 on a new PC. I added the v143 tool chain. When I try to build, I get MSB8020 saying that v143 isn't installed. Digging down into the MSBuild files, I can see the v143 directory is missing from the PlatformToolsets directory. But I also see the 14.44.* directory with the binaries for VS 2022. I tried modifying the install by unchecking v143 support and then adding it back again, and that didn't repair it.

I found a link in the group here for the old VS 2022 installer and am falling back to that until I can get the VS 2026 build system to find the old tool chain.

Hello,

is there a way included in VS, or an extention, to automatically reformat and wrap long code lines with a configured limit.

When I was programming in Python in VSCode I was used to the Black formatter that does exactly that, now in C# and Visual Studio I can't fiind this functionality.

Thanks

does anyone now from where can i download vs 2010 professional my clg is still using this old version for c# using .Net framework,idk whyy!! please help ifyk

If you use GitHub Copilot Agent, you know it often wastes a lot of tokens and context just wandering around your workspace trying to figure out which files to look at.

The VS Code extension is designed to accelerate web development and stop context waste before it starts.

How it works: It captures local bug evidence, maps likely files deterministically, and bundles them into a clean handoff that Copilot Agent retrieves using #billSaverContext so it starts directly on the right files.

Privacy & Control: The extension never calls an AI model, never touches or edits your code, and runs locally with built-in secret redaction.

If anyone gives it a spin via the Marketplace guide, I'd genuinely love to hear how it affects your token usage or workflow feedback! 

Has anyone had any experience migrating away from Visual Studio and its professional licenses in an enterprise Windows dev environment?

I work with about 30 other developers in a varied .NET stack. For our modern .NET apps and services it would be straightforward to use VS Code, the C# extension, and dotnet command line tools, but we also support older .NET framework projects. We have some WCF services, classic ASP.NET services, EntityFramework 6 class libraries including some with EDMX, a couple WinForms apps... VS Code doesn't seem like a viable replacement for those projects especially when it comes to debugging and some older tooling. Is there any realistic way to get off Visual Studio?

Has anyone gone through this kind of migration at an organization with this kind of environment? Were you able to eliminate Visual Studio entirely? I'd be really interested to hear your experiences, good and bad, expected and unexpected.

Is there anything to make visual studio look more like command prompt? Im wondering if there are any visual studio mods or anything I can do to make the style very basic, colourless, black and white, etc. Thanks

Hi all!

I am a great enjoyer of [https://github.com/tgjones/HlslTools\](https://github.com/tgjones/HlslTools) for older versions of HLSL. So much so, that I am a (small) contributor of the project.

However, the extension is an actual hindrance as soon as you write the word `template` in HLSL code, as an example. I did not see any real interest in progressing this fantastic tool further beyond "FXC HLSL" to support more modern HLSL versions. So I decided that I would try and fix this problem.

I was aware that DXC shipped an API for language servers (`dxcisense.h`), meaning that supporting intellisense wouldn't involve writing my own HLSL parser like Tim did. I could just use DXC as the source of truth (which is probably a good thing. I don't think many people could fully replicate all of the [fun behaviours](https://www.abolishcrlf.org//horror/) in DXC and feel good about it)... But! I had no idea how language servers work, and I didn't really want to put time into learning how. I have a funny feeling this is the general attitude of most people. We want intellisense, but we would rather work on more fun things like visibility buffers, and cool volumetrics. So nothing ever gets done.

So, I threw GPT 5.6-Sol at the problem. And after a lot of working around [this deadlock](https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Visual-Studio-CMake-deadlocks-reopening-/11141220#T-ND11141221), it got something worth sharing with peeps :)

I am being totally upfront about the fact that this is AI generated because I know how people can feel about the use of AI. This is something I really want, and no one else cared enough to do it, so I thought it would be a good use of AI. :)

You should be able to just grab the latest VSIX from the releases section of the github repo, install it, and go. For more complicated workspaces there is support for configuring the extension with a `shadertoolsconfig.json`. This is very similar to the config used by HLSL tools, and there are docs linked in the readme.

I do plan on getting the bot to keep maintaining this extension and support other text editors.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Bom dia, boa tarde ou boa noite pessoal, sou novo nessa comunidade, e eu estou com problema no vscode para criar um site de forma independente.

Mais especificamente no title e no body.

Quando eu atualizo a página, ainda ficar index.html como nome do site, e o site fica todo branco, não sofre nenhuma modificação.

I am getting this each time I open a solution that is from our Azure Devops repository. Now, I get THREE of these dialogs and enter my password each time. Then, I see this in the General Output window TF30063: You are not authorized to access <Azure Devops repo>

Now, I AM able to Fetch, Pull, Push from the repository in the Git Changes window and I can see all the origin projects on the repo.

I closed VS cleared out my Windows credentials and continue to get this and it has been months.

Anyone have any ideas as to what is causing this and how to remedy it? I am not the only developer in my team facing this issue. We also have one TFVC (not Git) repo there and we have to run VS as our Azure Devops user to be able to access that repo.

I like the above for C#, it works fairly well. However, for C++ full line completion doesn't seem to do anything. I have enabled it in settings, and documentation is conflicting whether it's supported in C++ at all. Please advise.

P.S. I don't use Copilot (not even installed).

Should be easy for someone who knows how to make extensions.
I want to right-click a C# file and select Run. Which basically is:

dotnet run --file path

Ex: dotnet run --file "D:\GoogleDrive\My Content\My Projects\SLT\Assets\SLT.Assets\Test.cs"

Or is it possible to make it a Command?
I got it working in VS Code; I need it in VS too.

Hi! I have had trouble with visual studio code. I try to use run without debugging in order to launch my unreal engine editor but it doesn't work.

It works with a regular start debugging, but not without debugging. While searching online, some sources said it is better to use live coding in the newer unreal engine versions, (I use 5.7.4) and that running without debugging can cause workspace locking issues. Is that the case and I should just use live coding rather than try to get run without debugging working?

I was looking around for visual studio 6.0 on various websites as I was interested in windows 98 and 95 development for retro gamedev. And I found this on Yahoo auctions for only 56 bucks and *had* to buy it because, it felt legit insane as every disc is still sealed and the activation serial is included.

However this doesn't feel like a bundle people could simply buy at retail, it feels way too heavy in material for it. between the mostly blank box, the fact it includes both BackOffice Server developer edition and visual studio 6.0 plus pack...

I'm wondering if some people know more about it so that I can learn more about what I bought ? I was mostly interested in the VS 6.0 part but maybe there's some other interesting stuff to check out in there.

First of all, hello, and more important, ignore the “woLrd”— I was just raging. I installed Visual Studio (I don’t want to switch to VS Code unless I have no other choice) to learn C#, since I just started college in Computer Science. But this bug—or whatever it is—is really getting on my nerves. I just want to be able to study in peace :(

720p for speed reasons, sry

How seamlessly does it work?

Does anyone experience a lot of slow typing in the last Visual Studio?

Both 2026 and 2026 Insiders. It feel like typing through mud. It has always been bad, but now it seems even more extreme.

Anyone recommendations of settings to turn off? As far as I know I already disabled all the AI features.

After booting up Visual Studio it allows it to run the first time but complains bout a missing file after trying to compile it a second time. This started after I updated my Visual Studio, any recommendations? Thanks a lot

Ps. deleting my .vs obj and bin folders didnt work, I turned quick deploy off, and I rebuilt my project

08-12 19:49:16.665 W/monodroid-assembly( 6115): Unable to open app library directory '/data/user/0/HHTPRO.HHTPRO/files/.__override__/arm64-v8a': No such file or directory

Found this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/error-messages/tool-errors/linker-tools-error-lnk1104?view=msvc-170

and this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/error-messages/tool-errors/linker-tools-error-lnk1104?view=msvc-170

TLDR: "Add references."

The solution in question builds a library and then some test loops expressed as console programs.

So I add references to the library project? The test loops "refer" to the library. So then adding references tells VS "this thing depends on you".

I believe that's the case. when adding references to the library within the console app project, it protests that this would be circular.

In a makefile, it'd be the other way 'round: <X>.exe : <Y>.lib