A review of five non-Copilot AI coding assistants available in the Visual Studio Marketplace that support Visual Studio 2026 and exceed 100,000 installs.

I tried four vibe-coding tools, including Cursor and Replit, with no coding background. Here's what worked (and what didn't).

This extension runs the latest pdf.js underneath. A demo of their editor (hence ours) can be found here. Most extensions currently in the marketplace have problems too deep to fix. These problems ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment ...

The Copilot Studio Extension allows developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents directly from within VS Code.