diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/extensions/ms-dotnettools.csdevkit/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/extensions/ms-dotnettools.csdevkit/default.nix
index b92fd0df4aae..f57e5a550f32 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/extensions/ms-dotnettools.csdevkit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/vscode/extensions/ms-dotnettools.csdevkit/default.nix
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ vscode-utils.buildVscodeMarketplaceExtension {
             --add-needed libssl.so \
             "$file"
         done
+
+        # Fix libxml2 breakage. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/396195#issuecomment-2881757108
+        mkdir -p "$out/lib"
+        ln -s "${lib.getLib libxml2}/lib/libxml2.so" "$out/lib/libxml2.so.2"
       ''}
     )
   '';