Browse All GitHub Copilot Content (406)

dotnet explores AI-assisted development in Visual Studio, including a new agent harness powered by the Copilot SDK, expanded model and provider options, and configuration controls. The video covers how GitHub Copilot and other AI options fit into different stages of a .NET development workflow.

dotnet walks through a real .NET migration using GitHub Copilot agentic modernization, from assessing potential breaking changes to producing a change the team can merge. The session explains where the agent handles work, where developers take over, and how custom skills support codebases outside the default upgrade path.

Jakub Oleksy reviews GitHub’s October service disruptions, their causes, and the changes intended to prevent recurrence. The report covers Azure capacity growth, database routing failures, overloaded connections, delayed Actions jobs, and Copilot authentication errors, showing why additional capacity must be paired with stronger isolation and safer recovery procedures.

Andrea Griffiths explains how to package repeatable tasks as agent skills that work across GitHub Copilot and other clients. Using independent verification and analytics pipeline examples, she shows how to separate project context from instructions, share execution paths, and enforce human approvals and CI checks without confusing instructions with permissions.

GitHub explains October updates to GitHub Copilot, covering self-learning automations for issue triage, Projects for coordinating work across repositories without local cloning, and Fusion for routing tasks across frontier models. The episode connects these capabilities to routine pipeline work and discusses what software factories mean in practical development workflows.

DeepGanguly introduces Azure Container Apps as an assessment target in Azure Migrate. The article explains how to discover web applications, evaluate readiness, estimate resources and hosting costs, organize migration waves, and use GitHub Copilot app modernization to prepare and deploy Java and .NET applications.

Michael_Flanakin details FinOps toolkit 15 updates, including a cross-platform AI plugin, local FinOps hubs, and NAT Gateway support for private deployments. The release also improves reservation and savings plan datasets, corrects cost data issues, and updates PowerShell commands, reports, and Azure Optimization Engine ingestion.

Maira Ladeira Tanke, Mark Roy and Vivek Bhadauria outline engineering practices for moving Foundry agents into production. They explain when deterministic logic beats model reasoning, how to manage context and evaluation costs, and why tracing, delegated identity, session isolation, and capacity planning belong in the architecture from the start.

Praveen Sethuraman announces Bring Your Own Model general availability in Visual Studio 18.12. Developers can connect hosted or local models to Agent Mode without GitHub sign-in, maintain multiple provider configurations, select compatible API formats, and use enterprise proxy settings. Administrators can control access through organizational policy.

fiveisprime announces Python support in the guided Copilot experience for building Azure apps in VS Code. The workflow takes developers through architecture planning, project scaffolding, local development, and deployment, with checkpoints to review decisions, Azure resources, and estimated costs before proceeding.

GitHub demonstrates using GitHub Copilot to customize a 3D-printed DJI microphone stand. Rather than manually editing the model in CAD software, the team used an AI prompt to add GitHub platform icons across the handle, creating a textured grip and showing a creative physical application of a developer AI tool.

Anna Hoffman reviews Microsoft SQL updates released throughout 2026, spanning Azure SQL, SQL Server, Microsoft Fabric, and database tooling. The roundup covers Hyperscale scaling, vector search, recovery and security controls, migration options, Copilot-assisted workflows, database deployment, and driver updates, with availability details and limitations to check before adopting them.

Allison outlines an update that lets enterprise GitHub Apps assign GitHub Copilot seats to users and enterprise teams through enterprise-level seat management APIs. Access requires the new Enterprise Copilot license management fine-grained permission for Apps.

Wuyi_Weng introduces the Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana remote MCP server, which lets GitHub Copilot and other AI clients query Azure telemetry using your own permissions. The article covers setup, a Kusto analytics example, dashboard updates and the differences between this global endpoint and Azure Managed Grafana instance endpoints.

Allison announces general availability of Gemini 4 Carbon in GitHub Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users. The model targets complex coding and reasoning tasks, with usage-based billing at provider list pricing. Availability is rolling out gradually, and organization administrators can control access through model policies.

dotnet covers options for isolating AI coding agents from your main PC while modernising legacy .NET applications with GitHub Copilot CLI plugins. The session focuses on sandboxing agents to limit risks such as accidental file deletion and access to resources they should not use.

dotnet demonstrates an AI desk companion that connects M5Stack hardware to a .NET 11 backend. The session covers embedded device controls, Aspire orchestration and telemetry, Microsoft Foundry chat and vision models, agent behavior, and GitHub Copilot SDK scenarios, alongside safe use of synthetic or sanitized work context.

Allison describes how the Microsoft C++ Language Server for GitHub Copilot CLI now automatically generates compilation databases for MSBuild projects. The bundled extractor removes a separate configuration step and reduces setup token usage, while CMake and custom build systems still require a supplied compilation database or a configuration skill.

The .NET Team introduces .NET 11, an STS release with two years of support. The release brings C# 15 union types, runtime and SDK improvements, expanded web and mobile capabilities, and tools for AI applications. The announcement also outlines preview limitations and upgrade requirements as .NET 8 and .NET 9 reach end of support.

Yunika Liu shares how she built Coco, a pixel-art golden retriever, using GitHub Copilot and a custom MCP server in one week. Her GitHub Universe session covers WebSocket synchronization, animation triggers, music composition, and connecting AI coding agents to a desktop window and LED display.

Dalia Abo Sheasha introduces the SDK-powered GitHub Copilot Chat experience enabled by default in Visual Studio 2026 version 18.12. The update improves results on C# coding tasks, adds mid-task instructions and live subagent visibility, and supports reusable agent skills. Plan mode and chat exports are still being brought over.

Olivia Guzzardo McVicker, Nhu Do, Cynthia Zanoni, and Connor Peet demonstrate major updates to Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot from the past month. This release recap covers recent changes to the editor and its AI coding assistant through demonstrations.

Fokko at Work demonstrates selected GitHub Copilot features in Visual Studio Code 1.144 and 1.145, including model orchestration with Fusion, image generation, computer use, and custom agent workflows. The video also covers editing and customization improvements, with availability potentially restricted by enterprise policies or pricing plans.

Allison announces Claude Fable 5.2 availability in GitHub Copilot for complex coding tasks. The update covers supported plans and tools, usage-based pricing, administrator enablement, and default retention of prompts and outputs, with temporary zero data retention access available to eligible enterprise customers.

Waldek Mastykarz examines how semantic version labels influence AI coding agents upgrading dependencies. Nearly 1,000 runs using GitHub Copilot CLI show that some models check patch releases less carefully than major releases, even with identical code. The findings support honest versioning and mandatory verification for every dependency update.

Beatris Mendez Gandica demonstrates how GitHub Copilot CLI hooks can turn an Octolamp into a physical agent-status indicator. The session connects lifecycle events to the WLED API, covers network fallbacks and hook race conditions, and shows how to adapt the approach for other devices.

OlivierB123 tests moving a Python-based Microsoft Agent Framework research demo into a Foundry-managed Copilot harness. The experiment connects Fabric sales data, document retrieval and native web research while keeping authentication and downloads in application code, highlighting evidence-validation requirements and the limits of delegating orchestration to a managed runtime.

Martin Woodward explains how the GitHub Universe conference badge becomes a handheld gaming system. The clip covers its capacitive touch buttons and how repository instructions help GitHub Copilot work with MicroPython and serial connections to generate, test, and deploy an app directly to the badge from a single prompt.

@GitHub coding tasks are now generally available in Slack and Microsoft Teams, letting developers turn conversations into issues, code changes, and pull requests, with Teams Canvas providing shared task visibility. Copilot now supports local and isolated cloud tasks in JetBrains Air, while a public preview brings it into Xcode's built-in coding assistant starting with Xcode 27.3 beta. Code review gains REST and GraphQL configuration controls, multi-model balanced reviews, and outcome reporting, while usage reports add custom-model breakdowns, chat and agent adoption data, and indicators of missing telemetry. Together, these updates extend Copilot across team conversations and development tools while giving organizations more control over reviews and better visibility into usage and results.

Jenny Patchen presents how Levi Strauss & Co. built a software development lifecycle around seventeen specialized GitHub Copilot agents. The session covers enterprise architecture, MCP connections, automated reviews and testing, security checks, and deployment, with human approval gates retained throughout the process.

Martin Woodward discusses how GitHub Copilot can help developers restart hobby projects when boilerplate feels like a barrier. His examples include running local models on a Raspberry Pi and tracking license plates in his driveway, with advice to timebox experiments and prioritize getting something working over perfection.

Pierce Boggan, Burke Holland, James Montemagno, Julia Kasper, and Katie Savage build a shared project with GitHub Copilot using different tools and workflows. This GitHub Universe 2026 session covers AI agents, carrying context between tasks, and working beyond the editor while balancing speed, cost, and control.

Allison outlines updates to GitHub Copilot code review, including API-based settings management across enterprises, organizations, and repositories. The changes also add attribution and source metadata, compact review overviews, AI credit visibility, and reliability fixes. Administrators should note differences in token and GitHub App support across settings endpoints.

Allison explains how the GitHub Copilot impact dashboard now tracks Copilot Chat and VS Code Agents window engagement across nine experiences. Enterprise and organization reports include the same additions, while the renamed Chat-first users cohort, unchanged adoption phases, and reporting rules clarify how to interpret the metrics.

Nick Liffen outlines how GitHub Copilot can support planning, implementation, verification, and production investigation beyond code generation. The guide covers shared project context, parallel tasks, focused pull requests, security checks, and operational evidence, while keeping developers responsible for approving plans, evaluating changes, and deciding what needs to happen next.

Allison summarizes this week’s GitHub Copilot updates, including availability in JetBrains Air and a public preview in Xcode’s built-in coding assistant. Other changes cover pull request merging, conversation context limits, CLI settings, session organization, and VS Code tools for reviewing agent work and scheduling local tasks.

Allison announces general availability of @GitHub in Slack and Teams, letting developers investigate bugs, create issues, implement changes, and open pull requests from conversations. Canvas in Teams supports collaborative review of plans, changes, and previews, while additional updates simplify repository selection and improve conversation reliability and attribution.

Qianqian Ye and John Maeda explore why sketching with code still matters when AI can generate functional output. Drawing on creative coding with p5.js and teaching at USC, they discuss how iteration builds the intuition to understand generated systems and exercise creative judgment rather than rely only on prompts.

WSilveira explains the new .NET 10 custom-code support in Azure Logic Apps Standard and walks through migrating existing .NET 8 projects. The guide covers project dependencies, runtime settings, coordinated debugging, deployment verification, and an optional GitHub Copilot skill that assists with migration without rewriting workflows.

Allison outlines new GitHub Copilot usage metrics API fields that show whether developers act on code review feedback. Repository reports now include addressed rates, comment breakdowns, and merged pull requests without subsequent human change requests, with important distinctions around merge-day counting, bot pull requests, and report access.