Microsoft released a new version of Visual Studio Tools for Git yesterday, that adds some welcome functionality. The update is version 0.8.0.0 (so it's still in the preview stage). The two key ...

Do you use source control tools to manage your software development process? Source control was the very first item on Joel Spolsky's Joel Test for the quality of a development team back in 2000.

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From Docker and Git integrations to Markdown and XML support to live collaboration, these add-ons for Visual Studio Code complement any workload Visual Studio Code isn’t just a text editor. It’s an ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 brings significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while a version 17.7 preview adds more productivity improvements. Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2022 17.6 IDE is now ...

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 rolled out Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2, which contains a ton of enhancements related to Git, C++, .NET, and macOS development. Color tabs are finally supported too. Visual Studio ...

Microsoft announced this morning that it is bringing Git support to both Visual Studio, and Team Foundation Server. Git, free software under the GNU public liscence, built at first by Linux-guru Linus ...

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 ...