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Exploring the AskVS command in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio

April 23, 2024 Apr 23, 2024 04/23/24
authorsCynthia Zanoni, Laurent Bugnion
(image) GitHub Copilot is an AI-driven coding assistant designed to streamline your coding tasks and boost productivity in various development environments. In this ongoing series, we focus on its integration with Visual Studio, illustrating how it can significantly enhance your workflow and coding experience. The latest short video I ...

How to use GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio

April 16, 2024 Apr 16, 2024 04/16/24
authorsCynthia Zanoni, Laurent Bugnion
GitHub Copilot serves as an AI-powered coding assistant capable of operating across various development environments, assisting you with your everyday coding challenges. In this new series of content, we will demonstrate how GitHub Copilot functions in Visual Studio especially and how it boosts your efficiency. We just published "Using ...

How to Install GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

April 2, 2024 Apr 2, 2024 04/2/24
authorsLaurent Bugnion, Anthony Bartolo
A step-by-step guide to enable the AI-powered coding assistant within Visual Studio Introduction to GitHub Copilot. GitHub Copilot is a new tool that helps you write code faster and smarter with the help of artificial intelligence. It can suggest code completions, generate code snippets, and even write entire functions for you. ...

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio: A Recap of 2023

March 14, 2024 Mar 14, 2024 03/14/24
Amy Nguyen
In the rapidly evolving world of software development, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. The introduction of AI in Visual Studio, particularly GitHub Copilot, has revolutionized the way developers code. With Copilot integrated into Visual Studio, you can leverage AI to streamline your workflows, manage large codebases, analyze exceptions...

Visual Studio’s Full Year in Review (2023)

February 26, 2024 Feb 26, 2024 02/26/24
Jason Chlus
In 2023, we added many new features, fixes, and improvements to Visual Studio 2022 to make your coding experience more productive, enjoyable, and accessible. This blog post looks back at all the notable enhancements that shipped in 2023 for Visual Studio 2022. Here are the recaps for the year...

Code Faster and Better with GitHub Copilot’s New Features: Slash Commands and Context Variables

January 24, 2024 Jan 24, 2024 01/24/24
Peter Groenewegen
Have you ever wished you had an AI assistant that could help you write code faster and better? That’s what Visual Studio Copilot Chat offers you: an AI-powered pair programmer that can answer your questions, suggest code snippets, explain code logic, and chat with you about your project. You can use Copilot to code faster and better, as it ...

GitHub Copilot chat for Visual Studio 2022

March 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023 03/22/23
Mark Wilson-Thomas
GitHub Copilot has become a trusted AI-assisted pair programmer helping to auto-complete comments and code more productively. That’s just the beginning though! We’ve been working to evolve Copilot to move beyond code completion and provide enhanced AI assistance that you can access throughout your development lifecycle, whatever task you ...