Announced February 13, Visual Studio 17.9 can be downloaded from the Visual Studio website. The update features AI-generated Git commit messages using GitHub Copilot.

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.1 is now generally available for production use, while Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 is available in a preview.

According to Microsoft, the process of switching between branches in Visual Studio using Git tooling requires the program to invoke the corresponding Git command for checking out the branch, as ...

Visual Studio 2012 is now able to connect to any Git host, including TFS, CodePlex, GitHub and Stash, using an extension available today as Update 2 preview.

Also the Visual Studio tooling support for Git is almost blank. The compiled version of the add-in is available in the Visual Studio Gallery.

Better GitHub integration and other improvements highlight the new Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.7 and first preview of v16.8.

Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2 also introduces customizable Code Cleanup profiles. These run automatically whenever a file is saved and will help minimize stylistic violations within PRs.

Resources for using the popular distributed source code control and collaboration tools Git and Mercurial on Windows.

There used to be a time when Microsoft would release new versions of its Visual Studio development environment every two years or so, with maybe a service pack in the middle. Since the release of ...

It steps through installing git, Java, Kick Assembler, and Visual Studio Code. Beyond that, it even explains how to use these tools in partnership with VICE – the Versatile Commodore Emulator.