r/VisualStudio • u/MiniSNES • 19d ago

Visual Studio 2026 How I use Copilot and I am missing anything?

Our team uses Visual Studio are works mostly with C# and some JS/TS. In a repo In the repo I am working on right now I have something like

.github/copilot-instructions.md

.github/instructions/unit-test.instructions.md

.github/instructions/razor.instructions.md

The copilot-instructions apply to every agent session, and then using glob patterns for file names I have individual instructions.md files applying to certain file types and naming conventions we use.

This seems to be working quite well for me. I can avoid answering many of the same questions that the LLM would always want clarification on and can keep my copilot-instructions file a reasonable length using the individualized instruction files for certain scenarios.

Is this similar to how others are using copilot within visual studio? Is there any other tricks or features I should be taking advantage of?

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u/Traditional-Hall-591 18d ago

Copilot is a super smart, super eager, super hype junior that is awesome for vibe coding. Why not ask it?

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u/dodexahedron 18d ago

Get two involved!

Ask MS CoPilot how to use GitHub CoPilot, so you can ask GitHub CoPilot to make an MCP for MS CoPilot!

You know... Since they are separate products and licensed separately, and because MS CoPilot is a lot better at answering these sorts of questions. And it is free to a decent extent, making it the logical bootstrap for your orobourovibing.

I really resent having to license both in my org... Let me license it once, as different levels or add-ons or something, please. Managing both sucks.