Tips & Tricks to Save Your Claude Tokens While Building Apps in Visual Studio
If you're pairing Claude with Visual Studio or VS Code for day-to-day .NET development, you've probably noticed how fast tokens burn when you let the model see (and regenerate) more than it needs to. Token spend isn't just a cost line — it's latency, context dilution, and lower-quality edits once you're past...
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One programmer, one business analyst, and several fullstack "AI co-developers" — all running through GitHub Copilot with Claude models. Here is the setup, from .md configuration files to team workflow, for both greenfield and brownfield .NET projects.
Prerequisites
Copilot Business/Enterprise license (coding agent, code review, org-level instructions).
A .NET repository (e.g., ASP.NET...
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What is Vibe Coding?
Vibe Coding is an AI-first development workflow where you:
Describe your intent in natural language.
Let the AI generate most of the code.
Iteratively refine through conversational prompts and quick tests.
In Visual Studio 2026, this is powered by:
Copilot Agent for multi-file reasoning.
Live Context Awareness for understanding your entire solution.
Instant Refac...
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