Using GitHub Copilot to write documentation for you!

Who writes documentation themselves anymore? Just use GitHub Copilot to do it for you!

In this video, I show you how you can use GitHub Copilot to explain unfamiliar code, generate inline code comments to explain what the code is doing, draft code commit summaries, and generate full project documentation for you in Visual Studio Code!

0:00 Introduction
1:52 Using the Workspace chat participant to explain projects
4:03 Using GitHub Copilot Chat View suggested questions
5:15 Using Chat Participants and Chat Variables to refine our prompts
7:13 Using the Explain This Smart Action to explain our code
9:01 Using Inline Chat View to generate inline code comments
10:24 Using the /doc command to generate inline code comments
11:22 Using the Generate Docs Smart Action to generate inline code comments
12:30 Using the Workspace chat participant to generate README markdown files.
16:24 Using GitHub Copilot to generate commit messages
18:31 Wrap up

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