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

Git Extensions includes an extension for Visual Studio versions going back to 2005. There's also the Visual Studio Tools for Git extension created by the Team Foundation Server (TFS) Power Tools Team ...

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is adding git support to TFS and Visual Studio, putting the distributed version control system on an equal footing with its current centralized system. In so ...

Microsoft has been mapping out plans to improve its Git Virtual File System (GVFS), including linking it to the Visual Studio IDE and getting it supported in third-party Git clients.

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 ...

This means Visual Studio users, for example, can now use GitHub and other Git-compatible repositories to host and manage their projects.

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.

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.

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 brings significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while a version 17.7 preview adds more productivity improvements.