Tootfinder

A post from the archive 📫:
Using Visual Studio to search objects in a memory dump
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/using-visual-studio-to-search-objects-in-a-memory-dump

Microsoft adds auto model selection to Visual Studio Code that primarily favors Claude Sonnet 4 over GPT-5 for paid GitHub Copilot users (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/778641/microsoft-visual-studio-code-anthropic-claude-4…

Microsoft favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft is favoring Anthropic’s AI models over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code. It’s also recommending that Microsoft’s developers to use Claude 4.

Microsoft releases its first preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major update since November 2021, with a new look and deeper AI integration (Tim Anderson/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/visual_studio_2026_previewed_deeper/

Microsoft's first preview of Visual Studio 2026: Deeper AI and a design refresh
: New look for Visual Studio but the core still runs on the old .Net Framework

A post from the archive 📫:
Using Visual Studio to search objects in a memory dump
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/using-visual-studio-to-search-objects-in-a-memory-dump

The results are in.
84 programmers responded to my C# preffered IDEs survey.
41.16 Chose Visual Studio.
39.96 Chose Rider.
15.12 Chose Visual Studio Code.
5.88 Chose Other.
It's interesting to see how Rider has caught up with Visual Studio in number of users over the years.
https://

Just published 🚀: Visual Studio Insiders
#visualstudio

Seems like without your own fork of Visual Studio Code, you will not be taken seriously as a technology company anymore. 😄
#Kiro

5 Helpful Extensions for #VisualStudio 2022 - #dotNet
https://improveandrepeat.com/2025/0…

5 Helpful Extensions for Visual Studio 2022 - Improve & Repeat
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"And for the first time, we’re introducing the new Insiders Channel, which replaces the long-standing Preview Channel as the way developers can get early access to upcoming features."
#VisualStudio2026

In "dealing with Electron apps" news: troubleshooting blurry _Visual Studio Code_ under Wayland. Culprit? Fractional scaling. That was a lot of fun...
The new command:
```
/usr/share/code --unity-launch --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --disable-features=WaylandFractionalScaleV1
```
#linux

@… good day, sir! May I ask for a Razor feature that could save people hours of their day and make you a greater hero in the eyes of many?
When I was at JetBrains, I asked them to implement this warning to catch issues with _ViewImports, but it seems Visual Studio and VS Code folks don’t see this from

The #VisualStudio2026 Insider release has officially launched today! This new version of Visual Studio promises an incredibly fast experience, complete with a sleek and modern design.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/in…

Note to self: When starting doing something large and complicated in Visual Studio, regularly build and run in both Debug and Release configurations from the start, even while you are still very much debugging the stuff, so that you notice if the latter mysteriously doesn't work early enough.

A post from the archive 📫:
Find the address of an object in Visual Studio
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/find-the-address-of-an-object-in-visual-studio

Ew. I rather hope no organization I know or use allows Grok, and by extension its neo-Nazi owner, into any repo or project or code or anything I touch at GitHub:
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-08-26-grok-code-fast-1-is-rolling…

Grok Code Fast 1 is rolling out in public preview for GitHub Copilot - GitHub Changelog
Grok Code Fast 1 will be available as an opt-in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code. Rollout will be gradual —…

Roadmap for AI in Visual Studio (September) #visualstudio :visualstudio:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/roadmap-for-ai-in-visua…

Make sure your code follows a consitent style using the {lintr} package. #rstats

A Linter for R Code
Checks adherence to a given style, syntax errors and possible semantic issues. Supports on the fly checking of R code edited with RStudio IDE, Emacs, Vim, Sublime Text, Atom and Visual Studio Code.

DEQSE Quantum IDE Extension: Integrated Tool for Quantum Software Engineering
Majid Haghparast, Ronja Heikkinen, Samuel Ovaskainen, Julian Fuchs, Jussi P P Jokinen, Tommi Mikkonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22843

DEQSE Quantum IDE Extension: Integrated Tool for Quantum Software Engineering
This paper presents a tool that simplifies quantum software development by unifying circuit design, code generation, and execution within a single cross-platform environment that supports iterative development. Implemented as open source, the DEQSE Quantum IDE Extension has been developed to provide quantum functionalities within the Visual Studio Code environment, including project creator, code runner, code converter, and embedded quantum circuit simulator. Furthermore, the system provides ca…

Just published 🚀: MCP server integration in Visual Studio
#visualstudio

A post from the archive 📫:
A talk about Dump File analysis
#debugging

A post from the archive 📫:
Building debugging context for Copilot Chat
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/building-debugging-context-for-copilot-chat