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 ...

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.