“Once you have a Copilot in every single application - whether that’s in Outlook, Word or your code editor, you can leverage the things you wrote in those environments, but you can also leverage the information from other workers in your organization, whether that’s other developers or maybe the marketing person, who now has an easier time writing the announcement blog post, because they have seen - in their Copilot - the release notes that the developer has put into their git repo. That’s not quite ready for public consumption, though. What’s maybe more interesting, though, is that GitHub plans to allow organizations to use this tool on top of their repositories and internal documentation. GitHub is starting with documentation for React and from the Azure Docs and Mozilla’s MDN and developers will be able to query those docs in a ChatGPT-like interface.

But ChatGPT’s cutoff date in 2021 means this information isn’t always up to date, so GitHub is augmenting it with more recent data (similar to what Microsoft’s Bing is doing for search with its Prometheus model). js file, you can type a function header and Copilot will automatically show a suggestion in light grey text.Also new is Copilot for docs, which enriches ChatGPT’s existing database, which you can already query about framework and language docs, for example.

In VSC, create a new JavaScript ( *.js) file.

In VSC’s “Visual Studio Code” dialog box, click Open to confirm the authentication.ĬoPilot is useful for Javascript, Python, C++, Ruby, and Go, but here is how to prompt your first suggestion with JavaScript.

GitHub will request permissions for GitHub Copilot in your browser click Authorize Visual Studio Code.

If you have not previously authorized VSC in your GitHub account, you will need to sign in to GitHub in VSC.

In the “Extension: GitHub Copilot” tab in VSC, click Install.

Click Open Visual Studio Code in the popup.

In the VSC Marketplace, go to the GitHub Copilot extension page and select Install.

Make sure you have an active GitHub Copilot subscription and have VSC installed.

To use GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code (VSC):

Copilot visual studio