Visual Studio’s integration with GitHub Copilot Chat has been significantly enhanced to provide developers with powerful AI-assisted debugging capabilities. The new features move beyond code completions to offer in-depth analysis and explanations of how code works, directly within your debugging workflow.

Three key debugging enhancements include: CPU Usage auto insights in the profiler, which provides detailed information about execution times and hot paths; the Copilot Exception Helper, which offers meaningful assistance when exceptions occur by leveraging call stack and variable context; and “Rubber Ducking” for debuggers, enabling natural language questions about call stacks, frames, variable names, and values during debugging sessions.

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