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

Visual Studio Code, the popular development text editor and IDE, has rolled out its big July 2025 release. The v1.103 update adds new Git and terminal integrations, better language support, and more.

Visual Studio Code now supports discovery for nested Git repositories and improves autoscrolling, among other features.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight IDE from Microsoft for developers to write code in a variety of languages like Python, PHP and more. It has inbuilt support for Git as well.

Resharper is an incredibly popular tool, with many devs calling it their No. 1 non-Visual Studio product for development. This update came rather quickly on the heels of Microsoft's Git announcement.

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.

The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.