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How to use GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio

April 16, 2024 Apr 16, 2024 04/16/24

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 use Comments to Prompt GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio

April 4, 2024 Apr 4, 2024 04/4/24

Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza, Laurent Bugnion

A step-by-step guide to use comments as prompts in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio. GitHub Copilot is a programming assistant that uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) to help you increase efficiency in your daily programming tasks. ...

How to Install GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

April 2, 2024 Apr 2, 2024 04/2/24

Laurent 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. ...

Improving the Spell Checker

March 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 03/15/23

Dante Gagne

Welcome to our latest blog post about the spell checker feature in Visual Studio 17.6 preview 2! We're excited to share with you the latest improvements we've made to this feature, which was first introduced in the Visual Studio 17.5 preview releases for C#, C++, and markdown files. We've received an overwhelming amount of valuable feedback ...

Documents and tool windows unleashed

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23

Mads Kristensen

We’re continuing our video series with tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Visual Studio. This week is all about managing tool windows and documents. There are lots of options to customize how we layout the various windows, documents, and tabs that you use every day. Knowing about these features will help you optimize your usage ...

Visual Studio on an ultra-wide monitor

May 5, 2022 May 5, 2022 05/5/22

Mads Kristensen

A growing number of Visual Studio customers use ultra-wide monitors today. Ultra-wide means wider than a traditional 16:9 widescreen display – usually 3440x1440 or larger resolution. They seem to be gaining popularity among developers and I’m curious how Visual Studio can use all this extra space. So, I asked people on Twitter to send me ...

Test tools for .NET and cross-platform apps

December 20, 2021 Dec 20, 2021 12/20/21

KendraHavens

Visual Studio 2022 brings better test tools to your everyday development with Show in Test Explorer, Remote Testing, Test audio cues, Playwright, and more!

It looks like you’re using Visual Studio. Would you like help?

August 25, 2021 Aug 25, 2021 08/25/21

Misty Hays

We recently asked in an installer survey what you’d find valuable to see while you’re staring at the installer screen during updates/installations in Visual Studio 2022, and y’all said tips and tricks! Y’all also told us that you want to see tips in the IDE, too—in a Visual Studio start page! Receiving tips from a virtual ...

Get more done with search in Visual Studio

October 26, 2020 Oct 26, 2020 10/26/20

Mads Kristensen

Over the years, the Search feature in Visual Studio has gotten faster and more capable. You might have missed some of the things it can do to help you be more productive and get the most out of Visual Studio. So, let’s take a closer look at how you can use Search in your daily work. I hit Ctrl+Q to use Search every single day and have for...