Hi, does Cursor work with Visual Studio? When I ran the installer, my only option was VS Code. If no, when is it expected this support would occur?
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Hi @jeljeljel ,
Apologies if I am misunderstanding your question, but just to clarify - Cursor is a fork of VS Code:
https://docs.cursor.com/get-started/migrate-from-vscode
Can you please help me understand what you mean by ‘Visual Studio support’?
Ah, I see now. I thought Cursor was a plug-in/add-on similar to GitHub Copilot. I see you have forked VS Code and are going from there.
Maybe you can help me understand this.
I use MS Visual Studio for website/services/mobile development. There are lots of projects to manage, and the debugging tools are essential. These are things that are lacking in VS Code. So, if Visual Studio is my environment, how can I best leverage the power of Cursor? Do I copy/paste code between the two, letting Cursor do its thing in its environment and then moving the generated code back into my chosen environment?
Hi @jeljeljel ,
I don’t feel equipped to answer that particular question, but hopefully one of the other moderators, or other users in the forum with more experience in Visual Studio, will be able to point you in the right direction.
Instinctively, I would say the copy/paste approach would negate much of the value that Cursor provides by integrating AI services into your codebase, within a familiar UI.
You could code your files first in Cursor, and debug them later in Visual Studio, but I imagine you’d want to be debugging as you were coding etc.
If you are new to the AI coding assistant space, and just wanting to get a sense of it, you might find it interesting to learn about projects such as the terminal based Aider - there is a good video on YouTube that references it, in the context of exploring approaches to AI assisted coding, here.
To get an overview of what Cursor provides, here is a recent YouTube video that provides a good overview.
The Cursor Docs have recently been added to GitHub, so I imagine that resource will grow in the coming weeks as well.
https://github.com/getcursor/docs
Hope you get a good solution for your scenario soon.
As a .NET developer I would absolutely love to see this. Hopefully this thread can gain a little traction and they consider forking Visual Studio as well as VS Code, but I also realize that is an extremely tall order
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Because I am a UE5 developer and aways use Visual Studio to code C++, if I can use Cursor to help me, it will be perfect!
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I am not sure if it’s still relevant, but a method currently working for me, note I am using two screens, a third screen might be even more optimal. I have the project open in Visual Studio, and then, within cursor ide, I have the folder open for the project. I then just reference all relevant files (linked files via either function or reference) And then I ask what’s needed or do what’s required. Cursor then makes the changes and saves the files. Visual Studio automatically pulls the changes so then I just compile and run from Visual Studio. Note I am a premium cursor member, but I believe it’ll work the same. What I’d like though is if either cursor adds the compilers required, or adds the visual toolbox and designer, maybe both? But yeah, this method works for me at the moment, not optimal but functional.
Same, as a .NET developer, would love to see native Visual Studio support. QuintusSmith’s solution works in a pinch as well!
Unfortunately, Visual Studio is Microsoft’s proprietary editor, which they have no open-source version of, unlike VS Code.
Therefore, it’s likely that we’d ever make a plug-in or extension for Visual Studio that allows you to use Cursor features within that editor.
There are some really good guides online about how to use VS Code or Cursor for .NET development that may help bridge the gap.
All right, makes sense.
Would you mind linking some of those guides you mention?
Thanks!
This may be of use, explaining how to debug with breakpoints inside Cursor!
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