I've been using Visual Studio for almost 20 years as my primary code editor /project manager and for all that time it's been solid. If there were errors it told you and highlighted/underlined them before you tried to build no matter where the error was in the entire solution.

I am willing to accept a slight decrease that solidness in order to gain the extra flexibility provided by dotnet core over framework. However...

My experience with the recent updates to Visual Studio have culminated into a state where errors that exists are not detected, or if they are (ex. on rebuild) they are only reported, not underlined. Once I find and fix the error it remains in the list until I rebuild, if there are other errors it will remain until I find and fix each of them (which themselves will remain in the error list...) and finally rebuild.

I've adjusted options, to no avail. Sometimes restarting VS helps for a few minutes sometimes deleting the .vs folder will help for a few more...I feel like It used to be a lot nicer.

Today I'm seriously considering moving to a plain code editor and using the donet cli for build/test/publish.

Is anyone else experiencing problems like this?

Our 17.13 release of VisualStudio.Extensibility includes the following features:

• Enhanced editor extensibility through tagger support
• Expanded settings API to allow for observation of changed settings values

What are taggers/tags?

In Visual Studio, text decorators are one of the key differentiators that enhance this experience. These decorators, such as text colorization and CodeLens, offer contextual information to help developers understand and navigate their code more effectively. At the heart of these decorative features is the concept of taggers. Taggers are the mechanism to mark the text in the editor with hidden information, enabling the editor to adopt various text decorations later.

I know most of you probably aren't interested in this, but just in case someone is 😂