Visual Studio 2022 and GitHub Copilot are powerful tools that can dramatically enhance your productivity as a developer—but are you leveraging them fully? Join Brian and members of Microsoft’s .NET Team for an immersive, hands-on lab crafted specifically for .NET developers like you, who want to maximize efficiency and effectiveness. In this full-day hands-on workshop, you'll dive into Visual Studio 2022's most impactful productivity features, that help streamline coding, debugging, refactoring, and collaboration. You'll also learn to integrate GitHub Copilot effectively into your workflow, harnessing its AI-driven code suggestions and chat features to accelerate your development cycle, reduce errors, and free you to focus on solving higher-level problems.

In addition, the team will show you the latest enhancements to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, github.com, and other IDEs. Whether you're new to these tools or already using them daily, you'll walk away with practical skills and best practices guaranteed to elevate your coding productivity. Join us and get ready to code smarter, faster, and more confidently.

You will learn:

• How to use GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 (for free!)
• How to use many of the hideen tools in Visual Studio 2022 to write code faster
• How to write code better and be more efficient

Attendee Requirements:

• You must provide your own laptop computer (Windows or Mac) for this hands-on lab.
• Computer Setup
  • Windows 10 or 11
  • You can use a Apple Mac only with a compatible virtualization stack to running Widows 11 in a VM
  • Visual Studio 2022 (latest version)