A developer named Firish has built an unofficial Claude Code integration for Visual Studio, filling a gap where the IDE lacked native support despite official integrations existing for VS Code and JetBrains. The extension implements the same protocol as the official plugins and adds a native diff viewer—you can accept or reject edits directly in Visual Studio instead of managing them in the terminal. It also automatically shares compiler errors and your current selection with Claude for better context. According to Hacker News, it's available on the Visual Studio Marketplace and requires no additional configuration.

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