Copilot Chat in VS Code Set Up and Troubleshooting

so you finally got it that email from GitHub regarding copilot chat that says you are now in so now what let's take a look the email will look like this so the first thing that you'll want to do is if you don't have Visual Studio code installed download it from this page here and install it if you already have it installed just make sure that there are no pending updates by going to code on the menu and checking for updates this one currently has no pending updates once that's done click on the extensions icon search for and install copilot nightly from the marketplace then what we'll do is sign into GitHub from vs code an important note is that the account that you use to sign in must be the same account that you used to request access click allow I'll click continue permitted to open the vs code app and allow the extension to open the URI and now you know you've correctly installed copilot nightly when you see the chat icon here on the left and a field to add a command or question to if you have issues make sure that you have these two requirements one an active co-pilot subscription and two access to chat preview in order to check just sign into GitHub and then use these two links the first to check if you have a subscription the second to see if you have access to chat preview once you're signed into GitHub the first link should bring you to your profile settings which is this page right here manually to get to your settings you could just go to your profiles and go down to settings if you do have a subscription you'll see at the very top of the page you'll have an option for suggestions matching public code that you can configure if you don't have a subscription your page will look like this where you'll have an option to start a free trial regarding copilot chat to check if you have access once again make sure you're signed into GitHub and you could use this link here and if you have access says it'll bring you to a page that says you're in and if you don't have access you'll be prompted to join the GitHub co-pilot chat wait list but once you have those two scenarios situated you know you have an active copilot subscription and access to copilot chat preview you should be good to go and that's it if you got value out of this video make sure to hit that like button and check out this video here that shows how to use copilot chat and also don't forget our copilot series foreign

Channel: Visual Studio Code

Views: 25,367

Keywords: vscode, visual studio code, vs code

Id: eCOsNCYxdYM

Length: 2min 47sec (167 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 15 2023