Most developers live in Visual Studio every day, but even experienced users often miss the features that can save the most time. This session is a fast-paced, demo-driven tour of Visual Studio productivity superpowers that are easy to overlook, hard to forget, and immediately useful.

You'll learn practical techniques for moving through code faster, editing with less friction, refactoring safely, debugging smarter, and streamlining everyday development tasks. Along the way, we'll uncover hidden IDE features, keyboard-driven workflows, search and navigation tricks, debugging shortcuts, and small habits that eliminate repeated clicks from your day.

Then we'll bring GitHub Copilot into the workflow, not as a replacement for developer skill, but as a force multiplier inside Visual Studio. You'll see how Copilot can help explain unfamiliar code, generate tests, improve documentation, assist with debugging, modernize older code, and accelerate repetitive development tasks.

This is not a "what's new" tour or a slide-heavy feature dump. It's a practical field guide for developers who want to get more out of the tools they already use every day. Whether you've been using Visual Studio for months or decades, you'll leave with practical tips and techniques you can start using immediately.

Takeaways
- Discover overlooked Visual Studio features that help you move, edit, refactor, and debug faster.
- Learn where GitHub Copilot fits naturally into real Visual Studio development workflows.
- Leave with practical productivity habits you can apply the next time you open your IDE.