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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 ...

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. ...

In 4 Weeks: Visual Studio LIVE! Chicago 2024

March 28, 2024 Mar 28, 2024 03/28/24

Jim Harrer

Visual Studio LIVE! Chicago 2024  April 29 - May 3 | Swissôtel, Chicago  Join us for Visual Studio LIVE! Chicago for a focused, deep dive into the latest .NET Microsoft Platform developments. You pick the package you want, 3, 4 or all 5 days! This year, we're at the Swissôtel Chicago, with sessions covering Microsoft Visual Studio 2022...

A new MSBuild editing experience

March 27, 2024 Mar 27, 2024 03/27/24

Mikayla Hutchinson

MSBuild is a fundamental part of the .NET development experience, but it can be challenging to new and experienced developers alike. To help developers better understand their project files and access advanced functionality that requires editing the project file directly, we’re releasing an experimental MSBuild editor that has a much richer...

See Your Pull Request Comments with the Latest Preview

March 25, 2024 Mar 25, 2024 03/25/24

Jessie Houghton

We just shipped preview support for viewing your GitHub and Azure DevOps pull request comments directly in your working file in Visual Studio in 17.10 Preview 2. As one of the most highly requested Git tooling feature suggestions on Developer Community, we need your help to make sure we're on the right track! Download the Latest Visual ...

Announcing SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for ARM64 Architecture in Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2

March 20, 2024 Mar 20, 2024 03/20/24

Subhojit Basak

We are thrilled to announce the launch of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for Visual Studio in ARM64. This enhancement comes with the exciting release version 17.10 Preview 2. Release of SSDT for Visual Studio on arm64 adds SQL development to the capabilities of Visual Studio on arm64. This latest development brings a host of features tailored to...

Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot at GDC 2024

March 19, 2024 Mar 19, 2024 03/19/24

David Li

Join us on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024, at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco for a special session on using Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot. In this session, you will learn how to leverage these tools to increase your productivity and modernize your game development workflow.

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...

Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 2 is Here!

March 12, 2024 Mar 12, 2024 03/12/24

Mark Downie

We hope you all enjoyed the new and updated features that came with our first preview of Visual Studio 17.10, and now we have even more to share! This release brings additional tools to help you improve your code reviews with Copilot, diagnostics improvements, as well as additional Extensibility and WinForms enhancements. Browse this list ...