Use Copilot to facilitate Finance and Operations workflows in Visual Studio

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Business value

There is a big productivity increase to be harvested for X++ developers. Dev Div have published numbers of more than 40% of published C# code was written by Copilot, and we would like to provide similar help to X++ developers. One of the other benefits is that It helps shortening the ramp up time for new developers, which has always been a problem for the business. We're aiming for the same kind of flow as canvas apps and Dataverse have today where natural language can be used to describe certain workflows.

Feature details

The value will be harvested in the GitHub Copilot Chat control within Visual Studio 2022. There, the user will be able to provide natural language test describing workflows and have the system do the work. As an example, you could write: "Create a table class MyTable with a name and an Age field and create an index over the Name field. Then, create a form that consumes the data in this table," upon which the system would create the artifacts suggested.