Visual Studio Pokémon
Bring Pokémon to Visual Studio! Add an animated Pokémon companion to your IDE while you code.
Inspired by the excellent vscode-pokemon extension by Jakob Hoeg, but built specifically for Microsoft Visual Studio.
Features
- 🎮 Animated Pokémon companion inside Visual Studio
- ✨ Smooth animated GIF sprites
- 📏 Multiple Pokémon sizes
- 🔄 Easily switch between Pokémon species
- 💾 Remembers your selected Pokémon between Visual Studio sessions
- 🎨 Automatically adapts to your Visual Studio theme
- ⚡ Lightweight and designed specifically for Visual Studio
Screenshots
Pokémon
Installation
Visual Studio Marketplace
Install directly from the Visual Studio Marketplace.
Or install the generated .vsix manually.
Usage
After installing the extension:
- Open Visual Studio.
- Open the View menu.
- Select Pokémon.
- Choose your favorite Pokémon.
- Enjoy coding with your new companion!
The selected Pokémon will automatically be restored the next time Visual Studio starts.
Available Pokémon
Current release includes support for multiple Pokémon species.
More Pokémon will be added in future updates.
Customization
You can customize:
- Pokémon species
- Pokémon size
Future versions may include additional customization options.
Building
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/FabioMusi04/VS2026-Pokemon.git
Open the solution in Visual Studio and build the project.
To test the extension:
- Press F5
- An Experimental Visual Studio instance will launch with the extension installed.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome!
Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.
Inspiration
This project was inspired by the wonderful vscode-pokemon project by Jakob Hoeg.
This is an independent implementation built for Microsoft Visual Studio and is not affiliated with the original project.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
See the LICENSE file for details.
Acknowledgements
- Inspired by vscode-pokemon
- Thanks to everyone contributing Pokémon sprite resources and open-source tooling.
