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@davidfowl Yes. It’s fun. Mine does stuff by writing and running C# scripts. It’s in charge of my Hue lights now.

I’m gearing up to build my own agent orchestration system. Are we all doing this now?? What stage of grief is this?

@DevLeaderCa It feels so heavy. I just wanted React in C#.

Blazor lets C# developers write front-end code without touching JavaScript, but do you feel like it's still too niche of an option?

@mkristensen Right click on any solution explorer icon is excruciatingly slow. First time you can easily count to 3.

Friday question: What issue with Visual Studio 2026 did you run into this week, that would make you happy to see fixed?

Browsers should support C# natively

@mkristensen VS 2026 regression? All my asp.net views now have that purple bold highlight on some tags that used to mean 'tag helper active'. Even though I have all tag helpers (save one) turned off.

@mkristensen Now with 'hide solution explorer nodes' and 'compact spacing in solution explorer' VS 2026 is feeling much better. Next can we get rid of the 'Connected Services' node?

@mkristensen It fades out code I’m trying to read.

What happened in Visual Studio 2026 today that made you think "Huh, that was annoying"?

@mkristensen How do you get VS 2026 to stop fading out private methods? The check boxes that seem like they should turn it off don't.

@mkristensen I installed the VS 2026 January update and 'disable solution explorer nodes' still isn't in there. Do you know when that's coming?

@mkristensen VS 2026 is still graying out "unused" methods even though "face out unused members" and "fade out unreachable code" is unchecked. Is there anywhere else I can check. This thing is hellbent on making text unreadable for me.

Rise of the Nintendo Punk youtu.be/ej2IQDW7Faw?si…

@PurzBeats I did your "NTSC filter tutorial" and it was a blast: youtube.com/watch?v=ej2IQD… Thanks!

@mkristensen I’m not on Insiders. When’s it coming to the real one?

@BowserKingKoop It was just released today in Insiders. Uncheck this checkbox

In Visual Studio 2026 you can now toggle the visibility of the symbols that shows up under C# and C++ files in Solution Explorer. Coming soon...

@mkristensen Thank you. I hit “reset” on that screen and it fixed it.

@BowserKingKoop Weird. Here's what I see. It is probably because in your VS, that shortcut was already assigned. You can reassign it or come up with a new one in Tools -> Options -> Keyboard

@mkristensen The key combo isn't working in the Insert Guid extension in VS2026. Is there a way to fix that?

@mkristensen This Blue Steel dark is the closest I've seen so far to VS2022 blue theme, but why can't we just have VS2022 blue theme?

I'm playing around with a new blue theme for VS 2026. How does this look?

@mkristensen It doesn't work for me and the key combo is not listed next to the command in the Edit menu, unlike in my VS2022.

@BowserKingKoop Ctrl+K+Space works for me

@BrodieOnLinux This could get me to Linux.

My Linux looks a little bit weird

@mkristensen There's not a single good light theme in VS2026. They're all low contrast pastel mush and hard to look at and work with for any extended period of time. It's not about 'blue theme' except that blue theme was a theme that was fit for purpose. developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Bring-Blue-t…