After spending hundreds of hours with all three editors, here's the bottom line: VS Code + Copilot is the reliable workhorse with unmatched ecosystem support. Windsurf + Cascade is the AI-native innovator with continuous context awareness. Cursor is the agentic middle ground with excellent tab completion and Composer mode. Each excels in different scenarios, and for Power Platform developers? The answer depends entirely on your workflow. Let me show you exactly how to choose.
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GitHub Copilot Workspace Context: The Complete Developer Guide to Smarter AI Coding
GitHub Copilot is only as smart as the context it can see. This guide explains exactly how workspace context and codebase indexing work in VS Code — remote vs local vs basic indexes, when to use #codebase vs @workspace, how to write copilot-instructions.md for your team, and six prompt patterns that consistently produce better answers. Practical, code-first, no fluff.

