Browse GitHub Copilot Videos (130)

Louis Erbkamm shares how Arnis converts real-world geographic coordinates into playable Minecraft worlds using OpenStreetMap data. The video explores the project's international contributor community and how its sole maintainer uses GitHub Copilot to triage bug reports, review pull requests, and keep the project moving.

Visual Studio Code demonstrates how the PostgreSQL extension and GitHub Copilot help you explore an unfamiliar database. The episode covers inspecting schemas, tables, views, and functions, visualizing relationships, asking context-aware questions in Copilot Chat, and checking answers against the database to understand its data model.

Visual Studio Code demonstrates a PostgreSQL workflow combining the PostgreSQL extension’s IntelliSense and database context with GitHub Copilot. The video covers drafting, explaining, analyzing, and improving SQL queries, then running them, inspecting results, and exporting data without leaving the editor, while keeping developers in control of the final queries.

Visual Studio Code introduces a four-part video series focused on doing more PostgreSQL work directly inside VS Code, including connecting to databases, writing and optimizing SQL, using GitHub Copilot to understand database context, and troubleshooting performance, with Azure mentioned as the underlying platform for modern PostgreSQL workloads.

GitHub demonstrates a hands-on workflow for going from a GitHub issue prompt to a deployed AI agent inside the GitHub Copilot app, using Azure AI Foundry tooling to provision resources, deploy a model, validate grounding to reduce hallucinations, and ship a secure proxy plus a website chat widget.

Marko Hotti and Patty Chow show how to build an Azure Cosmos DB app using AI-assisted development, starting from a blank folder and a product spec to generate a working travel planner. They cover data modeling, container design, queries, and local testing using the Cosmos DB Linux emulator and GitHub Copilot in VS Code.

GitHub explains how GitHub Copilot approvals can help teams avoid routine pull request review bottlenecks by letting Copilot provide delegated review approvals that count toward merge protection rules, while still combining that automated assessment with a human approval to satisfy branch requirements.

GitHub shares a September platform update roundup covering Project HydraFusion’s expansion to VS Code and the GitHub Copilot app, plus new workflow features like local sandboxing GA, automated PR approvals that can satisfy merge gates, and bulk autofix for CodeQL findings.

Patrick LeBlanc demonstrates Fabric Database Hub’s database agent for observing SQL Server databases, surfacing performance signals, and guiding investigation from detection through hands-on troubleshooting, including a blocking scenario in SSMS and follow-up analysis workflows in VS Code with GitHub Copilot support.

Amit Khandelwal demonstrates an end-to-end migration of a working app from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, using SSMS assessments and VS Code tooling to evaluate readiness, address blockers, and execute a BACPAC-based move. He also shows GitHub Copilot helping resolve a Service Broker issue and validating the cutover.

Microsoft Developer presents SQL Modernization Day, a set of sessions from the Microsoft SQL team focused on moving SQL Server workloads to Azure without rewriting applications, and then preparing those workloads for building AI-ready apps using modern Azure and Fabric SQL options.

GitHub shows how to fix repository issues from inside JetBrains IntelliJ by installing the GitHub Copilot plugin, browsing open GitHub issues, and using Copilot to generate an implementation plan and apply the changes with its coding agent.

Julia Muiruri demonstrates an end-to-end workflow for building and shipping an AI agent directly from Visual Studio Code, using GitHub Copilot and the Foundry Toolkit extension to pick a model, test the agent against a real product catalog, deploy to Microsoft Foundry, and connect it to a website via a secure proxy.

GitHub demonstrates an end-to-end workflow for taking an open GitHub issue to a pull request using GitHub Copilot inside JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, including installing the plugin, planning the work, implementing a fix, reviewing changes, and validating accessibility.

GitHub demonstrates the My AI Usage Canvas, a custom dashboard built around Copilot Chronicle commands to help developers visualize token consumption, see which AI models they use most, and understand usage patterns across repositories to identify practical ways to reduce AI costs.

Fokko at Work demos selected GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code updates around the 1.142/1.143 timeframe, including comparing model outputs, improvements in the Agents window, and new UI elements like the Session Activity Bar. The video also covers running Copilot models locally on NVIDIA RTX hardware and notes how enterprise policies and pricing plans can affect feature availability.

GitHub demonstrates how the Logitech MX Keypad integrates with the GitHub Copilot app to control Copilot Chat and voice prompts from dedicated hardware keys, plus manage projects, sessions, and MCP server toggles without leaving the coding flow.

Microsoft Developer demonstrates an end-to-end workflow for building and shipping a hosted AI agent from the terminal using GitHub Copilot CLI and Microsoft Foundry, including planning, resource creation, model selection, evaluation-driven improvements, and a secure Azure Functions proxy to connect the agent to a website chat experience.

GitHub hosts a two-hour live-coding session with Wes Bos, Burke Holland, and Pierce Boggan showing how GitHub Copilot can take a 3D foldable phone simulator from scratch to running functional web apps, including parallel agent workflows, model choices, and practical debugging in the browser.

GitHub shares a short documentary-style look at what a 48-hour hackathon is actually like, from idea formation and rapid prototyping to learning through trial and error. It also touches on how tools like GitHub Copilot can help participants turn rough concepts into working applications under tight time constraints.

Fokko at Work demos what’s new in Visual Studio Code 1.141, focusing on workflow and UI updates plus several GitHub Copilot improvements, including continuing external Copilot sessions, sandboxing in the Copilot agent host, persistent chat progress, and visibility into discovered MCP servers.

Patrick Nikoletich explains how GitHub Copilot agent sessions can move between devices using GitHub’s shared agent runtime, the Copilot SDK, and the Agent Host Protocol, including a live demo that hosts an agent on a home Linux machine and connects to it from the Copilot CLI.

GitHub explains an upcoming GitHub Copilot feature that intelligently routes some requests to local, on-device models (including Ollama and Microsoft Foundry Local) to reduce cloud usage, enable offline workflows, and keep sensitive data on the machine.

Visual Studio Code introduces “Blobby” as the new VS Code Pet and shows how to enable it from GitHub Copilot Chat using the /vscode-pet command.

Rory Preddy demonstrates an end-to-end workflow in VS Code using GitHub Copilot to build and debug a Java Spring Boot app, then expose app capabilities as MCP tools and validate behavior with Playwright tests.

Mahmoud A. Atallah shows how he uses GitHub Copilot agents in VS Code to turn meeting transcripts and other customer inputs into structured requirements and execution-ready delivery artifacts, then enriches them with Azure guidance via MCP servers and the Well-Architected Framework.

John Savill recaps major Microsoft AI announcements from September 2026, focusing on Azure AI Foundry updates (models, routing, agent features, and controls), Copilot platform changes, and developer-facing items like GitHub Copilot and VS Code agent workflows, plus data/AI additions such as Azure SQL vector capabilities.

GitHub introduces gh-secure, a one-command tool from the GitHub Security Lab aimed at improving basic repository security hygiene by helping prevent secrets from being leaked into public code, with usage via the Copilot app, Copilot CLI, or GitHub CLI.

Julia Kasper introduces Project HydraFusion, an experimental GitHub Copilot CLI capability that routes prompts across multiple AI models based on intent. The session explains HydraFusion’s execution patterns (single, cascade, critique), shows efficiency-focused demos, and covers transparency goals like reducing user bias in model selection.

dotnet shares the GitHub Universe Day 1 opening keynote, focused on GitHub’s view of the next era of software and the developer workflows and tools GitHub is building, including announcements and live demos across the GitHub platform and GitHub Copilot.

Fokko at Work walks through the key updates in Visual Studio Code 1.140 with a focus on GitHub Copilot changes, including HydraFusion and new session capabilities. The video uses short demos to show how the features work and notes that availability can depend on enterprise policies and licensing.

Microsoft Developer shows how to use the GitHub Copilot App to build a personal assistant by describing requirements in natural language and collaborating with Copilot to create an application, add features, test, and refine the solution using agentic development workflows.

Ben Brauer talks with Eric Imasogie about the Microsoft Learn MCP Server and how it helps AI coding assistants validate answers against current, official Microsoft documentation via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

James Montemagno hosts a VS Code Live release recap with members of the VS Code and GitHub Copilot teams, highlighting recent feature updates and what they mean for day-to-day developer workflows in the editor.

GitHub introduces how the GitHub Copilot app can stay involved after a pull request is opened, automatically fixing CI failures and addressing reviewer comments so changes can move toward merge with less manual back-and-forth.

GitHub demonstrates how to connect the GitHub Copilot app to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) so you can run Copilot coding agents directly inside an Ubuntu environment, handle parallel feature requests with Git worktrees, preview changes in an in-app browser, and verify diffs without leaving the app.

Tyler Leonhardt explains how to use different model “harnesses” in VS Code with GitHub Copilot, including Claude and Codex, and how bring-your-own-key (BYOK) changes the ways you can access models from your editor.

John Savill runs through the Azure Weekly Update for 25 September 2026, covering a grab bag of platform changes across compute, serverless, containers, PostgreSQL, and Azure AI Foundry, plus several GitHub Copilot and model availability updates and a retirement notice.

GitHub introduces Canvas in the GitHub Copilot app, showing how developers can describe a workspace UI in plain language and have Copilot generate interactive tools like dashboards and issue trackers without writing UI code.

Fokko at Work demos the GitHub Copilot and VS Code 1.139 updates, focusing on running agent sessions in Dev Containers on remote hosts and several quality-of-life improvements for managing Copilot sessions and chats.