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Introducing the new Copilot experience in Visual Studio

April 9, 2024 Apr 9, 2024 04/9/24

Rhea Patel

GitHub Copilot your AI-powered coding companion is now seamlessly woven into your Visual Studio IDE, enhancing your everyday tasks and bringing you the latest AI-driven coding experiences. Copilot is designed to elevate your efficiency, by offering personalized code suggestions, crafting your git commit messages, answering coding-related ...

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...

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 ...

Naming Made Easy: AI-Powered Rename Suggestions

December 18, 2023 Dec 18, 2023 12/18/23

Dalia Abo Sheasha

(image) Ever struggled to name a variable, method, or class—finding that perfect balance between expressiveness and conciseness? You're not alone. We've tackled this universal challenge in the latest Visual Studio Preview via our GitHub Copilot Chat extension (subscription required). Introducing: AI-powered rename suggestions. This ...

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 ...

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022

March 1, 2023 Mar 1, 2023 03/1/23

Mads Kristensen

GitHub Copilot uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time right from your editor. Trained on billions of lines of public code, GitHub Copilot turns natural language prompts including comments and method names into coding suggestions across dozens of languages. In Visual Studio, Copilot acts as a pair-programmer making ...

Visual Studio AI-Assistance: A Developer’s Best Friend

February 13, 2023 Feb 13, 2023 02/13/23

Peter Groenewegen

The Visual Studio family leverages AI to help you stay focused on the creative tasks that get the core logic of your application built. For Visual Studio and VS Code, IntelliCode is free and assists with writing, editing and understanding code in popular languages. With IntelliCode, models run locally, meaning that none of your code ...

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