service-fabric Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10 support

We are working extending Service Fabric to support Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10.

Visual Studio 2026 will not have the Service Fabric tooling included by default. We will be releasing it to the Visual Studio Marketplace and will include links to install it with the future releases in addition to the links for the SDK and the Runtime packages that already have to be installed.

https://dev.azure.com/msazure/One/_workitems/edit/31770464 https://dev.azure.com/msazure/One/_workitems/edit/31770380

Sep 16 '25 19:09 olegsych

Hi, is there any further information on when the package will be released?

Oct 08 '25 07:10 mezzo1981

Any chance that we can get dotnet project support at the same time? (i.e. not needing to use msbuild for sfproj files)...

Oct 17 '25 08:10 esbenbach

Visual Studio 2026 now has a go-live license. @olegsych, I'm not sure how to understand this:

We will be releasing it to the Visual Studio Marketplace and will include links to install it with the future releases

Will the updated tooling be available before November 11, when Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10 are released at .NET Conf?

Oct 27 '25 06:10 sherland

@esbenbach what is the status of this now that vs 2026 has now been released?

Nov 12 '25 03:11 ElCapitanSponge

Even a rough ETA will suffice so that we may plan .NET 10 migration accordingly.

Nov 12 '25 06:11 cernuto

@ElCapitanSponge - Unfortunately I have no idea. I am not an MS employee or otherwise associated, just an SF user like most of you :)

I have not chanced an installation of VS 2026 yet, but its on the todo for this week.

Nov 12 '25 07:11 esbenbach

@esbenbach what is the status of this now that vs 2026 has now been released?

@olegsych can you give us an update?

Nov 12 '25 08:11 TimBlinqx

@olegsych Hello, any update regarding the release for SF tooling ? Kind Regards, Laurent.

Nov 12 '25 16:11 LoloActemium

@olegsych or anyone else on the team, when can we start working with VS 2026 on our Service Fabric applications? Cheers Bruce

Nov 12 '25 19:11 Zir01

@ElCapitanSponge - Unfortunately I have no idea. I am not an MS employee or otherwise associated, just an SF user like most of you :)

I have not chanced an installation of VS 2026 yet, but its on the todo for this week.

I apologise for tagging you @esbenbach I was meant to tag @olegsych in my original comment 🤦

Nov 12 '25 20:11 ElCapitanSponge

@olegsych is there any further information on when the package will be released?

Nov 14 '25 09:11 mezzo1981

@olegsych Any ETA here? I think we all can live with it still taking some time, but plain out ignoring this, makes this project feel even more dead than it already is.

Nov 20 '25 08:11 tuhland

@olegsych we rely on service fabric and would like to migrate to the new visual studio but this is a real pain point for us. There were comments on a help arrival months ago saying that there was an "internal fix" and that the public fix would be out soon.

How long is soon? It has been months now and it feels like Microsoft is pushing service fabric to the side and wanting people to move to docker/kuberneties instead

Nov 20 '25 08:11 ElCapitanSponge

I'm just going to add my voice to those saying that we could really do with at least some timeline on when we'll be able to work with our sfproj files in 2026. I know it's not the trendiest of techs, but there are still quite a few of us out here who rely on it to run key parts of our systems and have no interest in transferring to alternatives like docker or the like

Nov 20 '25 11:11 delradie

The VS Code extension was also recently archived https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-service-fabric-reliable-services. Is service fabric being discontinued?

Nov 20 '25 22:11 PaddiM8

Azure Support got back to me and basically says they are tracking the item here, but they have other priorities.

Not really encouraging, but hopefully they ARE working on a new extension.

Nov 25 '25 06:11 esbenbach

@olegsych @amenarde

Honestly, this is getting beyond ridiculous.

No release notes for the latest 3 releases
Not even an ETA for the VS extension and .NET 10 support

What do you think you'll achieve by ignoring these?

I get that you guys probably pulled the short straw and now have to keep this abandoned thing running until deprecation can finally be announced, or you finally get rotated out and the new guys can start over (again).

But at least communicate with us, so we can plan accordingly. Most of us are probably on the way out anyways, so you don't need to be scared about shocking us.

It's embarrassing that this issue repeats like a clock with every major .NET release, even if the community points you to this ahead of time.

Dec 05 '25 09:12 tuhland

We have hard dependencies on Service Fabric for all our microservices, and our migration plan is greatly impacted for .net10.

We would like to know when the Service Fabric feature is going to available.

Dec 05 '25 10:12 sankarsanparida1

Any updates to this, or any other type of updates to SF actually....

Tagging anyone how has actually comitted stuff here recently...(okay maybe not so recently) @tomvcassidy @plave0 @abatishchev

And then some people who used to respond to stuff @craftyhouse @olegsych

Dec 12 '25 12:12 esbenbach

only @craftyhouse and @olegsych are from the SF team and have any official information.

internal information isn't different from official so I can't share anything on top of that (I'm just a fellow customer and we are all in the same boat)

Dec 12 '25 16:12 abatishchev

Stop ghosting us microsoft, we need something.

Dec 15 '25 14:12 LiamCalculus

I have asked for an update here

maybe upvoting there will catch the attention of some team that might provide us with more information

Dec 17 '25 13:12 TimBlinqx

Nice work Tim, though the SF team has said multiple times they don't monitor/work on GH anymore, and the VS Community site closes items with "please use the SF github" as the reason...

Its a great platform, its just being left un-managed :(

Dec 17 '25 13:12 esbenbach

Nice work Tim, though the SF team has said multiple times they don't monitor/work on GH anymore, and the VS Community site closes items with "please use the SF github" as the reason...

Its a great platform, its just being left un-managed :(

Thank you! Unfortunately we cannot upvote the item on the VS Community site because the item is closed. So we have no way of letting them know how many of us wants this to be released.

As mentioned in the article, upvoting raises the score of the item internally. They don't track GH, so we are indeed stuck in a loop.

I hope my comment catches their attention which might expedite the development of the Service Fabric Tools extension for Visual Studio 2026. 🤞

Dec 17 '25 13:12 TimBlinqx

We expect to have clarity on the timeline by end of Jan 2026.

Dec 18 '25 16:12 olegsych

Thabk you!

Esben

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