Anson Horton

The GitHub Copilot coding agent is now available on every page of GitHub. Delegate any coding task, anywhere you are across GitHub to the coding agent. 🎉 Engage coding agent via: 1. Global launcher (new) 2. Assign an issue 3. Delegate from VS Code 4. github.com/copilot/agents

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent is now available to all paid Copilot users. 🎉 If you have a GitHub Copilot license, you can assign issues to Copilot to work on for you in any of your repos, or ask a question like "@copilot open a PR to improve my test coverage" in Copilot chat in VS Code or GitHub today.💡 github.blog/changelog/2025…

✨ Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—and it's now generally available in the Visual Studio June update. It builds a plan, executes it, adapts along the way, and loops through tasks until completion. Read more about it here: msft.it/6018SQDuo #VisualStudio #Copilot

Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 is now generally available! ✨ Dive into AI-assisted development with GitHub Copilot's new agent mode, enhanced debugging tools, and more. Update today and experience the future of coding! Check it out. msft.it/6186SZGgq #VisualStudioNews #GitHubCopilot #AI #DevTools

Agent mode in VS now in preview: devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/a…

@KristoferA @VisualStudio I can't help with the global opt-out, but for VS specifically, you can uninstall GH Copilot which hopefully gets you what you want (and sorry for the reenabling options!) Click modify in the VS installer, search for GH Copilot in the Individual Components tab, and uncheck.

Microsoft: "here is a security update for VS" @VisualStudio before the "security update": all copilot options disabled. VS after the update: multiple copilot options enabled. There should be a global opt-out option for all the copilot garbage: OS, VS, Office, etc.

Live coding on YouTube - GitHub Copilot AI features in Visual Studio BEYOND "just writing code" youtu.be/0t9WLAAQ2B0?si…

Great to see Visual Studio's GHCP integration appearing across YouTube. @shanselman has a great way of pulling you into the experience. @visualstudio #visualstudio #githubcopilot #ai youtu.be/0t9WLAAQ2B0?si…

🖥️ With @workspace, you can reference your entire solution in chat to get high-level insights. 🗂️ You can also refer directly to methods, classes, and functions with "#", or even search the web using @GitHub (For Copilot for Enterprise customers) #copilot #GitHub

@mkristensen @timheuer @archiecoder @VisualStudio @cheibriados @aarnott That is a service that the diagnostic tooling uses to collect ETW information. The team is following up, though they believe they may have fixed this recently.

@timheuer @archiecoder @VisualStudio Me neither. @cheibriados @aarnott @AnsonHorton any of you know?

@VisualStudio I had to go to the Task Manager to stop the service. cc @timheuer

@cgillum @mkristensen @FilishaShah Thanks Chris - we'll take a look!

@AnsonHorton @mkristensen @FilishaShah Great! These are with ghost text completions. Sometimes they work fine, and sometimes the extension that controls them appears to get in a bad state and confused. Here's one example, which is clearly not valid.

What is your pet peeve about Visual Studio?

@kilroi @davidfowl Would love to know more - we keep working on it :)

@davidfowl I love both VS Code and Visual Studio. The CoPilot integration in VS Code is amazing. It's really good in Visual Studio as well, but not as good as the inline chat in VS Code.

Microsoft is really good at building developer experiences

@cgillum @mkristensen @FilishaShah I'd love to see these when you run into them! Are these with chat, or ghost text completions?

@mkristensen @FilishaShah I can share screenshots next time I encounter some examples of these.

@timheuer @mkristensen @VisualStudio We'll definitely add a close button - totally agree it's odd we don't have one!

Some tips on how to be more effective providing context or being more productive with GitHub Copilot in @VisualStudio devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/c…

Windows Developers! I need your help! Our team is exploring a new Dev Home feature, 'Dev Drive Insights' and would love your feedback + ideas! Checkout the GitHub issue below for more info! Let us know what you think! github.com/microsoft/devh…

Visual Studio solves the second hardest problem in computer science - naming things. Coming soon...

@ericlaw I thought I'd give this a try, and the first thing I got was a needed update. But, afterwards, worked like a charm.

I just wanted to play solitaire. 🥹

Visual Studio's new CPU telemetry is catching some super interesting stuff that gives us an insight into real world usage that is very hard to replicate in our "performance lab". I've covered some of this previously here. twitter.com/davkean/status….

We continue to make progress on this largely due to feedback from early users. Feel free to try and send us your thoughts! A lot more work to do as usual :-)

Give this a go and let us know what you think - been working on it for a bit :-)