Visual Studio Code presents a hands-on lab exploring advanced GitHub Copilot features, including agent mode and cloud-based AI agents, to enhance developer productivity and workflow customization.

Hands-On Lab: The Power of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Get practical with the advanced capabilities of GitHub Copilot integrated in Visual Studio Code. This lab goes beyond the basics, introducing agentic development through VS Code’s agent mode, MCP servers, and custom agents, empowering you to build and integrate features rapidly into your applications.

What You’ll Learn

Agentic Development: Explore how agent mode in VS Code, along with MCP servers and custom agents, automates coding tasks.
Live Feature Integration: Build and integrate new app features in real time, observing the impact of changes immediately.
Customization: Learn to fine-tune Copilot’s AI-generated results to fit your team’s coding standards and best practices.
Asynchronous Agents: Discover how to run agents outside of VS Code, such as with Copilot CLI or Copilot Cloud Agent, supporting background and asynchronous workflows in the cloud.

Resources and Next Steps

Lab Repo: VS Code Lab Repository
Discord Community: Microsoft Foundry Discord
Azure Free Trial: Get Started
On-Demand Sessions: Catch Up Here
Upcoming Sessions: AI Apps & Agents Global Sessions
January AI Dev Days Hackathon: Register Here

Key Takeaways

Boost your productivity by leveraging GitHub Copilot’s advanced coding agents.
Integrate and deploy app features quickly with real-time feedback.
Customize Copilot to align with your team’s workflow and standards.
Employ cloud-powered Copilot agents for scalable, asynchronous development workflows.