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GitHub Copilot chat for Visual Studio 2022

March 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023 03/22/23

Mark Wilson-Thomas

GitHub Copilot has become a trusted AI-assisted pair programmer helping to auto-complete comments and code more productively. That’s just the beginning though! We’ve been working to evolve Copilot to move beyond code completion and provide enhanced AI assistance that you can access throughout your development lifecycle, whatever task you ...

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022

March 1, 2023 Mar 1, 2023 03/1/23

Mads Kristensen

GitHub Copilot uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time right from your editor. Trained on billions of lines of public code, GitHub Copilot turns natural language prompts including comments and method names into coding suggestions across dozens of languages. In Visual Studio, Copilot acts as a pair-programmer making ...

Maximizing the value of IntelliCode with API usage examples: Real-World Code Examples at Your Fingertips

February 22, 2023 Feb 22, 2023 02/22/23

Peter Groenewegen

As a software developer, we've all faced the frustration of having to leave our IDE to search for documentation, code examples, Stack Overflow, blog posts or simply trying to remember how to use a certain API. What if we told you that we have a solution for you? Now with Visual Studio 17.6 Preview, IntelliCode makes finding real-world code ...

Visual Studio AI-Assistance: A Developer’s Best Friend

February 13, 2023 Feb 13, 2023 02/13/23

Peter Groenewegen

The Visual Studio family leverages AI to help you stay focused on the creative tasks that get the core logic of your application built. For Visual Studio and VS Code, IntelliCode is free and assists with writing, editing and understanding code in popular languages. With IntelliCode, models run locally, meaning that none of your code ...

Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode!

September 5, 2019 Sep 5, 2019 09/5/19

Mark Wilson-Thomas

With Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 3 we are happy to announce that refactorings can now be enhanced by IntelliCode. IntelliCode spots repetition quickly and suggests other places in your code where you might want to apply that same change, right in your IDE

Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture

December 13, 2017 Dec 13, 2017 12/13/17

Visual Studio Blog

Last month we hosted Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Connect(); is a three-day, in-person and online developer event. If you missed it, no worries! You can watch our keynotes, sessions, and on-demand videos on Channel 9. For the past five months our keynote demo team worked on a new set of reference apps. We used most of these apps ...

Node.js: From Zero to Bobble with Visual Studio Code

February 16, 2016 Feb 16, 2016 02/16/16

Visual Studio Blog

Node.js is a platform for building fast, scalable applications using JavaScript. It’s making its way just about everywhere – from servers, to Internet of Things devices, to desktop applications, to who knows what next? Ooh—I know what next...bobbleheads! (image) Bobblehead Generator Of course, we don't just want one bobblehead...we ...

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