Visual Studio is perfectly willing to work with any file that you want to add to your solution -- you just have to tell it what editor to use.

Git-related improvements in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.1 allow developers to compare a current branch with other branches in their repository, making it easier to keep track of branches while ...

Visual Studio 17.9 adds AI-generated Git commits and enhances extensibility, while Visual Studio 17.10 brings AI-powered chat into the IDE.

Source: Microsoft The new Git tooling is an important development in Visual Studio, especially considering other GitHub-related features released this year (like GitHub Actions for Azure).

Microsoft has announced that it made several performance improvements in Visual Studio 2022 in the 17.3 release. Mainly these enhancements relate to Git branch switching and C++.

GitKraken launched GitLens 12, an open-source Visual Studio Code extension that enables to use Git from Visual Studio Code for the Web and github.dev.

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.

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.