Taysser Gherfal

Principal Product Manager

Taysser is one of the program managers for Visual Studio’s core IDE. Taysser joined the Visual Studio team in 2019 and focused on enhancing git tooling and team collaboration experiences.

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Visual Studio 2022 – 17.7 Now Available

August 8th, 2023
We're delighted to announce the General Availability (GA) of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 today. This release is a testament to our continued commitment to creating an enriched developer experience, powered by community feedback, and driven by the needs of the diverse developer landscape. From novice coders to experienced developers, this...

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 2 is here!

June 13th, 2023
 Welcome to the Public Preview 2 of Visual Studio version 17.7! Hot on the heels of our recent Preview 1, we're thrilled to roll out another collection of upgrades tailored to empower developers like you. Preview 2 pushes the boundaries further, providing speed, productivity, and collaboration improvements for developers across different ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 1 is here!

May 17th, 2023
Welcome to the Visual Studio Public Preview 1 of version 17.7! This exciting update offers a wide range of productivity enhancements tailored to the diverse needs of developers. Experience the cutting-edge improvements of Visual Studio and discover what lies ahead in this Preview release before it becomes widely available.

Git Line-staging Released!

August 15th, 2022
We are excited to announce the release of Line-staging support in Visual Studio 2022. Line-staging, a.k.a. interactive staging, enables you to split your changed lines of code across different commits. Line-staging could also be utilized in reviewing your changes before committing them. Mark your changed lines or sections of code as reviewed ...

VS2022 Performance Enhancements: Git Branch Switching

July 11th, 2022
Have you experienced delays when switching between your Git branches in Visual Studio? Did you have to wait for your solution and projects to reload after switching between branches in a Git repository? We are happy to announce performance enhancements to the branch switching experience in Visual Studio 2022. To benefit from the latest ...

Supercharge your Git experience in VS

April 13th, 2022
Have you experienced delays when viewing your Git repository or branch history in Visual Studio? Have you run a network command like force-push and had to wait for the operation to complete? Your Git repository may be having performance issues due to its large size. We are happy to integrate a relatively new Git feature called the commit graph...

Line-staging (Interactive Staging)

February 17th, 2022
Line-staging support, a.k.a. interactive staging is one of our most popular Git suggestion tickets. Visual Studio already supports staging files and now we are taking that to the next level by making it possible to stage chunks of changes in your files right from the editor. Line-staging can be helpful when you need to split changes across ...

Introducing new Git features to Visual Studio 2022

January 6th, 2022
We continue to enhance the Git experience in Visual Studio, and we are excited to announce some long-awaited updates in version 17.1 Preview 2. Download the latest Visual Studio Preview and check out the following new Git features. New Git features Description Compare branches Compare your checked out branch with any local or...

Multi-repo Support in Visual Studio

August 11th, 2021
Have you ever needed to work on a solution with projects hosted on different Git repositories? Previously, you had to either use multiple instances of Visual Studio or rely on external Git tools. Starting with Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3, you can enable the multi-repo support preview feature which will enable you to work with a single ...

Getting Started with GitHub Actions in Visual Studio

August 22nd, 2019
This month, GitHub announced CI/CD support for the GitHub Actions API. GitHub Actions now makes it easier to automate how you build, test, and deploy projects on any platform, including Linux, macOS, and Windows. This blog is an introduction to how you can quickly start utilizing GitHub Actions in Visual Studio.