Extensions

Fail Fast

MadsKristensen

Cancels a solution build as soon as the first project fails, helping you find the real error faster and avoid waiting for the rest of the build.

NuGet Manager Slim

MadsKristensen

An alternative NuGet Package Manager for Visual Studio — unified, async-first, with inline progress and per-framework version state.

Codex for Visual Studio

KazushiKamegawa

AI coding assistant powered by OpenAI Codex.

Local Model Integrator

MichaelJordanlxman

Chat with locally-hosted or remote AI models directly inside Visual Studio. Supports OpenAI-compatible endpoints, Ollama, and custom model APIs.

CoPilot Status

3rikF

Displays GitHub Copilot quota status in the Visual Studio status bar.

Claude Speak

InteractiveLion

Dockable voice console for Claude Code: speak to Claude, hear responses read aloud with word highlighting, and run the claude CLI in an embedded terminal.

Smooth Cursor

Ghost-Girls

A Visual Studio 2026 extension that brings smooth cursor animation, preventing the cursor from jumping around during multi-line input which ca

Classic Blue 2017 Theme

EvanLiu

Restores a Visual Studio 2017-style blue theme for Visual Studio 2026, with added VS2026 semantic shell color tokens.

CSS Explorer

JulienMarpault

CSS custom property tooling for Visual Studio: Go to Definition (F12), inline color swatches, syntax highlighting, and hover tooltips with resolved value chains.

Zero-Theme (VS 2026 Migration)

moms-spaggeti-zero-theme

Zero dark theme from Visual Studio 2022 migrated to Visual Studio 2026 with hopefully no longer glitched element colors.

Open in Windsurf

skttl

Adds a menu command that lets you open any solution, project, folder and file in Windsurf.

git-ai

git-ai

Keep track of code generated by AI. Detects GitHub Copilot edits in Visual Studio and records AI attribution via git-ai.