What’s new in GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio
summary
GitHub reports 1.8M subscriptions and 35% quarter‑over‑quarter growth while Visual Studio 17.10 ships Copilot in‑box, merging completions and chat so inline prompts can be refined and completions edited. Demos show Copilot explaining git diffs, converting sync code to async, performing a bulk‑fix of five errors across files, and running a debugging session that sets breakpoints, inspects values and proposes fixes. Copilot Workspace generates a plan, edits code in a Codespace and the live preview demo successfully runs, currently in technical preview with a waitlist.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome and introductions
- 1:02GitHub Copilot overview
- 4:26Copilot completions and chat
- 8:56Natural language IDE search
- 12:15Git history explanation
- 14:45Async code conversion
- 20:25AI-powered debugging
- 26:42Copilot in the browser
- 30:22Copilot workspace demo
- 37:23Final thoughts and resources
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