To use GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, you must have version 2022 17.8 or later of Visual Studio for Windows installed. For more information, see Install Visual Studio in the Microsoft documentation. GitHub Copilot extension for Visual Studio.

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See Extending the capabilities of GitHub Copilot in your personal account. Manage policies. See Managing Copilot policies as an individual subscriber. 7. Start using Copilot. Start using Copilot to help you write code faster and more efficiently. For all the ways you can use Copilot, see Using GitHub Copilot. Copilot code suggestions, Copilot ...

If you are using Copilot Chat in GitHub, provide specific repositories, files, symbols, and more as context. See Asking GitHub Copilot questions in GitHub. If you are using Copilot Chat in your IDE, use keywords to focus Copilot on a specific task or piece of context. See Asking GitHub Copilot questions in your IDE.

To use GitHub Copilot in Azure Data Studio, you need either limited access through Copilot Free or a paid Copilot plan for full access. For information about how to get access to Copilot, see What is GitHub Copilot?. Compatible version of Azure Data Studio. To use GitHub Copilot in Azure Data Studio, you must have Azure Data Studio version 1.44 ...

Use GitHub Copilot to get code suggestions in your editor. Asking GitHub Copilot questions in your IDE. Use Copilot Chat in your editor to give you code suggestions, explain code, generate unit tests, and suggest code fixes. What's new View all.

Use Copilot to generate unit and integration tests, and help improve code quality. Modernizing legacy code with GitHub Copilot Copilot Chat helps modernize legacy code by suggesting refactors and creating tests to catch potential issues.

To ask a question about specific lines within the file:. Click the line number for the first line you want to ask about, hold down Shift, then click the line number for the last line you want to select.; To ask your own question about the selected lines, click the Copilot icon to the right of your selection, then type your question in the GitHub Copilot Chat panel.

Optionally, add relevant files to the working set to indicate to GitHub Copilot which files you want to work on.. Submit a prompt. In response to your prompt, Copilot Edits determines which files in your working set to change and adds a short description of the change.. Review the changes and Apply or Discard the edits for each file.. For more detailed instructions, see Copilot Edits in the ...

To use GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, you must have an active GitHub Copilot subscription. For information about how to get access to Copilot, see What is GitHub Copilot?. Compatible version of Visual Studio. To use GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, you must have version 2022 17.8 or later of Visual Studio for Windows installed.