We’re excited to announce a significant enhancement to GitHub Copilot that elevates your C# coding experience. Introducing the new update: GitHub Copilot code completions now provide more accurate and relevant autocomplete suggestions by incorporating additional C# context.

Previously, GitHub Copilot generated suggestions based on the content of your currently active file and any other open files in your editor. While this approach was helpful, we have discovered that including more relevant context can greatly improve the quality of these suggestions.

With this latest update, GitHub Copilot now automatically considers semantically relevant files for additional context, even if these files are not open in your editor. This enhancement helps reduce hallucinations and ensures that you receive more pertinent and precise code completions.

Before: Semantically relevant files are not considered as context for GitHub Copilot Completions

After: Semantically relevant files are considered as context for GitHub Copilot Completions

To dive deeper into how this new feature works and how it can improve your coding productivity, check out our detailed blog post Improving GitHub Copilot Completions in Visual Studio for C# Developers on the .NET blog.

Stay tuned for more updates and thank you for being a part of our developer community.