From the course: AI-Powered Development: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

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Activate Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Activate Copilot in Visual Studio Code

From the course: AI-Powered Development: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

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Activate Copilot in Visual Studio Code

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Once you have copilot enabled on the GitHub website, you need to activate it within Visual Studio Code. This process involves two simple steps, installing the GitHub copilot extension and signing in to your GitHub account directly within the editor. Now if you want up-to-date instructions for installation, you can find them here on this Microsoft website. It might be worth visiting to see if anything has changed since I recorded this course. So how would we go about installing the extensions? In Visual Studio Code, I go to the Extensions pane. I've searched for the word Copilot, and at the top I can see two items, GitHub Copilot Chat and GitHub Copilot. Now these two are linked. If you install one, you will also install the other. You can see that in Visual Studio Code by going to something called the Extension Pack. Click here, and I can see that when I install this, it installs both of these. Also, if I look at GitHub Copilot Chat and look at extension pack, I see that if I install…

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