Microsoft has made Visual Studio 17.9 generally available and introduced a preview of Visual Studio 17.10. Both bring support for new GitHub Copilot capabilities.

As expected following its recent purchase of GitHub, Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio IDE is seeing stronger integrations with the development platform and open source code repository.

Microsoft is bringing its Azure-aware Copilot experience to Visual Studio 2022. The preview extension lets developers use ...

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.

The Git Experience is available as the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019 as of version 16.8.

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. GVFS is an ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

GitHub Copilot for Azure is now available in Public Preview inside Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.14 or later). The new ...