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Keyboard Shortcuts to Master Your Git Flow in Visual Studio

January 23, 2023 Jan 23, 2023 01/23/23

Jessie Houghton

One popular way for users to optimize their efficiency is to leverage shortcuts to interact with the UI. With Git tasks, like Committing, Pulling, and Pushing being part of your daily workflow, learning how to avoid leaving the keyboard for the mouse can keep you in the zone. Checkout some other shortcuts on this printable keyboard shortcut...

VS2022 Performance Enhancements: Git Branch Switching

July 11, 2022 Jul 11, 2022 07/11/22

Taysser Gherfal

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 13, 2022 Apr 13, 2022 04/13/22

Taysser Gherfal

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 17, 2022 Feb 17, 2022 02/17/22

Taysser Gherfal

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 6, 2022 Jan 6, 2022 01/6/22

Taysser Gherfal

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. Compare branches Comparing branches provides an overview of differences between two branches ...

Visual Studio 17.1 Preview 2 is now available!

January 5, 2022 Jan 5, 2022 01/5/22

Dominic Nahous

Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2 continues to iterate on the themes of the Visual Studio 2022 release. We're enhancing existing features, bringing new productivity improvements, and making it easier for you to make Visual Studio your own.

Your Visual Studio Dashboard

December 21, 2021 Dec 21, 2021 12/21/21

Misty Hays

I keep thinking about a tweet that said you should tackle challenging problems and do everything you can to maximize time well spent, so your ecosystem doesn’t have to. Because once you’re distracted, it can be challenging to get back into the flow of writing code. Developers juggle a massive cognitive overload of different software, ...

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3 now available!

August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21

Mads Kristensen

We are excited to announce the third preview release of Visual Studio 2022! With Preview 3 there are more new capabilities on the themes of personal and team productivity, modern development, and constant innovation. In this blog we’re going to highlight a few of the new capabilities of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3. We’d love for you to ...

Enhanced Productivity with Git in Visual Studio

April 15, 2021 Apr 15, 2021 04/15/21

Pratik Nadagouda

We’ve continued to enhance the Git tooling in Visual Studio and are excited to announce some long-awaited updates. We've built functionality that addresses gaps around discoverability, switching repositories, navigation, and more!

GitHub accounts are now integrated into Visual Studio 2019

November 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020 11/19/20

Ruben Rios

We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2019 now offers a fully integrated GitHub account experience. Starting with version 16.8, you’ll be able to add both GitHub and GitHub Enterprise Server accounts directly from Visual Studio. The new functionality allows you to add and leverage them just as you do with Microsoft accounts, which ...