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Posted on by Ken Manhattan

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Hello everyone,

Recently I've been reading and watching some videos about GitHub Copilot for assisting development task and project planning, but it is for project such as Python or Java Script, etc.

Now I'm wondering if D365 FO and X++ development also can leverage such AI assistant, by means does Copilot have feature to assist as well ?

Mind to give me some insight ?

Thanks,

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Martin Dráb 241,415 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You can use GitHub copilot for X++ as well. Of course, it wasn't trained on a lot of X++ code, but it can still help. For example, I was trying to get a query (with Query classes) generated from a textual description and it did give me valid X++. It can also generate documentation comments from code. But when I tried to use it to explain existing code, the result looked useless to me.

Give it a try (you can try GitHub copilot for a month for free and you'll see.
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Hi Martin,

The video I saw is using Visual Studio Code. You mean we can add this Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 as well ?

Thanks.
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Martin Dráb 241,415 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Of course that Microsoft don't ignore developers using their main IDE. GitHub Copilot is a standard component of Visual Studio 2022 from version 17.10, but it's optional, therefore you may need to run the installer and include GitHub Copilot.

There are VS extensions (GitHub Copilot and GitHub Copilot Chat) for older versions of VS 2022, but simply using a recent version of VS makes a better sense to me.