Introduction

GitHub Copilot can help streamline the process of modernizing and upgrading your Java and .NET applications. Copilot will analyze the project, generate a plan, automatically fix issues it encounters when carrying out the plan, and produce a summary.

Upgrading Java projects

You can upgrade a Git-based Maven or Gradle Java project using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code. You will need:

• Either aGitHub Copilot Pro,GitHub Copilot Pro+,GitHub Copilot Business orGitHub Copilot Enterprisesubscription plan.
• The latest version ofVisual Studio Code.
• For Maven-based projects, access to the public Maven Central repository.
• Installed versions of both the source and target JDKs.

For the next steps, seeQuickstart: upgrade a Java project with GitHub Copilot App Modernization - upgrade for Java (preview) on Microsoft Learn.

Upgrading .NET projects

You can also upgrade a .NET project using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio. You will need:

• Either aGitHub Copilot Pro,GitHub Copilot Pro+,GitHub Copilot Business orGitHub Copilot Enterprisesubscription plan.
• The latest release of Visual Studio Enterprise, Professional or Community 2022.

For the next steps, seeGitHub Copilot app modernization - upgrade for .NET on Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace.