Learning Paths

Learn to leverage GitHub Copilot's free tier in Visual Studio. From signing up to diving into .NET projects - understanding codebases, AI-assisted completions, refactoring, and AI-powered tests.

Pablo Lopes demonstrates how to activate GitHub Copilot on Visual Studio, with a glimpse of Agent mode and Chat mode.

Mads goes beyond the basics of code generation to show advanced agents for debugging and profiling.

Mads Kristensen and Nik Karpinsky walk through the re-architected Visual Studio for performance with AI integration.

Jason shows the new install experience, retargeting C++ and .NET projects, and using Copilot to modernize apps.

Practical framework for using GitHub Copilot and AI tools effectively. Learn what AI does well, where it falls short, model selection, cost tradeoffs, and best practices for integrating AI into your development workflow.

Trying to decide between Visual Studio and VS Code in 2026? You don't have to. Learn how both IDEs work better together with GitHub Copilot to maximize developer productivity.

Live coding from Microsoft Build 2026 exploring the latest in agentic development with GitHub Copilot, featuring Visual Studio 2026 with Mads Kristensen.

Learn how Visual Studio is evolving into an AI‑augmented IDE, where GitHub Copilot acts as a collaborative engineering partner — not just for code generation, but for end‑to‑end development tasks.

Download the latest version of Visual Studio to access the newest AI models including Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ChatGPT-4o.

Pablo Lopes shows when to use different models for GitHub Copilot and how they impact chat participants like @VS.

Discover how to get GitHub Copilot to follow your coding standards, preferences, and project conventions.

Pablo Lopes shows how to make XML docs with GitHub Copilot for consistent, high-quality documentation.

Learn how to get GitHub Copilot to suggest and make changes across multiple files at once based on your descriptions.

With Copilot Edits, building applications becomes a conversation. Watch as we build a full app through natural language.

Getting started with Blazor is one thing—building real apps quickly with AI is another. Learn how to go from zero to a working Blazor application using GitHub Copilot.

Pablo shows how easy it is to debug problems with Copilot - testing, inspecting variables, and troubleshooting.

Learn how Copilot in Visual Studio enhances code quality and streamlines the entire development lifecycle.

Harshada Hole demonstrates how to take your debugging workflow to the next level using GitHub Copilot.

Visual Studio's Exception Analysis with Copilot incorporates repository context for smarter debugging.

When a test fails, ask Copilot to analyze and fix it automatically with the Debugger Agent.

How GitHub Copilot and AI are transforming debugging—smarter breakpoints, intelligent variable inspection, and code stepping.

Meet the new Debugger Agent workflow in Visual Studio. This isn't just a chatbot—it's a real-time partner that reasons alongside you. Watch how it analyzes bug reports, launches your project, and validates root causes through an interactive, guided loop.

Introducing the upgraded Debugger Agent with a new guided workflow that helps reduce debugging uncertainty and move from issue identification to resolution faster.

Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—now generally available in Visual Studio.

Jessie walks through using vibe coding and agent mode to transform ideas into working code.

Watch as Simona uses agent mode as a teammate during development for refactoring and iteration.

Joe shows how to use Copilot agent mode to write code and the Copilot Profiler Agent to optimize performance.

See the Copilot Profiler Agent analyze real code, identify bottlenecks, suggest optimizations, and verify improvements.

AI-guided performance profiling that analyzes CPU & memory usage, surfaces hot paths, and suggests optimizations.

A super easy way to optimize performance of your .NET application using your existing unit tests, the built-in profiler, and Copilot to tie it all together into a single click.

McKenna shows how GitHub Copilot testing for .NET makes it dramatically faster and more convenient to generate high-quality unit tests.

GitHub Copilot's testing agent makes it dramatically faster to generate high-quality unit tests for .NET applications. Learn the build/fix loop, review generated tests, and understand the insights provided.

Klaus shows us the WinForms Expert agent, which is designed specifically to assist .NET developers building WinForms apps.

Deep dive into Visual Studio's built-in agents that tackle what code generation can't - root-cause bugs using live runtime behavior, pinpoint performance bottlenecks, and build test coverage.

Learn how to build and use agent skills, which are lightweight packages with specialized knowledge an agent can discover and use while solving a task.

Pablo Lopes teaches how to make GitHub Copilot work with MCP (Model Context Protocol) in Visual Studio.

Fabian Williams introduces MCP and shows how developers can build agentic applications with it.

Sam and Jerome catch us up on the Uno Platform and its new AI support, including GitHub Copilot integration with Uno Platform MCP servers and Hot Design agent.

GitHub Copilot generates intelligent commit messages based on your changes automatically.

Discover how to catch potential issues before committing and use Copilot to review your changes.

Use Vision to include images in your prompts for UI generation and visual context understanding.

Eriawan shows how to use Copilot to modernize existing apps to use the latest technologies.

Sinem shows C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot and David demos the Copilot build performance agent.

Visual Studio now supports rendering Mermaid diagrams in the Markdown editor with AI generation.

Brian Randell and Mickey Gousset unpack how agentic AI is reshaping DevOps—from coding to automation and security.

Full end-to-end demo of using GitHub Copilot App Modernization agent inside Visual Studio to upgrade legacy .NET applications through assessment, planning, and execution workflows.

Accelerate .NET app modernization using Visual Studio 2026 and GitHub Copilot. Learn how AI-powered tools analyze, plan, and execute upgrades from .NET Framework to modern .NET, handling MVC, WinForms, Web Forms, and more.

McKenna shows how GitHub Copilot testing for .NET makes it dramatically faster and more convenient to generate high-quality unit tests.

Explore Visual Studio 2026 and the advanced enterprise features designed to help C# and C++ developers build, debug, and modernize applications with confidence.

Learn how to use agentic AI and GitHub Copilot to modernize legacy apps by analyzing codebases, mapping dependencies, planning upgrades, and refactoring safely at scale.

End-to-end game development workflow on Windows, from setting up dev environment with WinGet and GitHub Copilot, to advanced C++ tools, build optimization, and debugging with integrated agents.