GitHub Copilot is a coding assistant powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), which can run in various environments and help you be more efficient in your daily coding tasks. In this new series of content, we will show you how GitHub Copilot works in Visual Studio specifically and how it helps you being more productive.
In the first video in this series, Bruno Capuano shows you how you can install GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot Chat for Visual Studio. Then he goes through the features of both extensions and how you can use it to be more productive when writing code, analyzing your code, and discovering new features of the C# language, and Visual Studio.
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More information and resources:
aka.ms/vs-copilot-1
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Chapters
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00:00 - Installing GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot Chat
02:34 - Cycling through suggestions
04:02 - Using comments as prompts
05:12 - Using the inline prompt
06:06 - Using alt-command to generate documentation
06:53 - Using Alt - Optimize
08:25 - Using # to reference another file
09:55 - Enabling GitHub Copilot chat
10:25 - Using GitHub Copilot Chat to get information and convert code
11:48 - Describing a file
14:25 - The AskVS command, Ask Visual Studio for help