Microsoft Copilot Demystified: A 20-Minute Introduction

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Explains that GitHub Copilot is an LLM trained on millions of public repos and that it generates runnable code, comments, and unit tests but requires human review. Shows how to install and sign into the Copilot extension in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, demonstrates the Copilot Chat with file-aware prompts, and auto-creates an Azure Function file (naming, preview, insert) then runs it via generated URL. Notes a 30-day trial, ~£10/month pricing, multi-language support, and metadata-table and stored-proc generation.

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1. 0:00Welcome
2. 1:12What is GitHub Copilot
3. 3:38Key benefits and use cases
4. 7:31Setting up Copilot
5. 11:53Demo overview
6. 14:41Creating Azure function
7. 16:32Database and pipeline configs
8. 18:22Q&A

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