Public Preview: Introducing a Guided Copilot Experience for Building Azure Apps in VS Code

Today we're previewing a new way to build cloud apps with GitHub Copilot in VS Code: a guided Copilot experience that takes you from idea to a deployed Azure app through a structured, predictable workflow instead of a free-form chat session that may or may not land where you need it to. **The problem: Copilot is powerful, but unpredictable** Ask Copilot to _"build me a Node.js API on Azure Functions with a Postgres database"_ today, and you might get a working project, or you might not. Sometimes Copilot scaffolds the app but skips infrastructure. Sometimes it generates a deployment script that fails halfway through. Sometimes it forgets what you were building three prompts later. The underlying model is capable. The problem is the _shape_ of the experience: an open-ended chat with no checkpoints, no guardrails, and no consistent path from _"I have an idea"_ to _"it's running in Azure."_ Learn more: * [Read the blog](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AppsonAzureBlog/introducing-a-guided-copilot-experience-for-building-azure-apps-in-vs-code/4557120) * [Install the Azure Tools extension for VS Code](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.vscode-node-azure-pack)