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New Copilot Enterprise features in Visual Studio (preview)

Summary

New features for Copilot Enterprise are introduced in Visual Studio Preview, enhancing functionality for developers.

GitHub Copilot Enterprise subscribers in Visual Studio can now use Copilot Chat to get answers enriched with context from their entire repository (not just open tabs!) and Bing search results.

To try out this functionality, install Visual Studio 17.11 Preview 2, and then check out the docs.

Get answers from across your entire codebase

Copilot Chat can now answer questions with understanding of your full repository, not just the tabs you have open. Index your repository on GitHub.com, and then ask a question mentioning @github. You can ask questions like @github Where is device detection implemented?.

Search with the context of the web

GitHub Copilot can now search Bing to find information outside of its general knowledge or your codebase. When you mention @github, Copilot will intelligently decide when to use Bing. You can ask questions like @github What are the breaking changes in Next.js v14?.

Bing search is only available if enabled by an administrator – for more details, see “Enabling GitHub Copilot Enterprise features”.

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