Next, go to Home in Team Explorer, Manage Connections and then click on the sign-in next to GitHub: Let’s open Repository Settings, provide the username and email which match with our GitHub account and click Update: However, repository settings are scoped to only one git repository in reference. The global settings would define the machine-wide settings for your user profile which then would be applicable to all git repositories.

If there is an existing solution already opened in Visual Studio, then you would get to see both Global Settings and Repository Settings: If you are not working on a solution inside Visual Studio, you will get the option of only Global Settings. Go to Visual Studio -> Team Explorer and then click on the settings option. Setup integration between Visual Studio and GitHubįor Visual Studio to be able to connect to GitHub, we need to provide it sign-in information. To start with the installation process, we need to close Visual Studio and then follow the wizard. Out of the results shown, find the one named as ‘GitHub Extension for Visual Studio’ and then click on the download button just next to it: This would prompt Visual Studio to search for relevant results from the marketplace and a list would be generated in the center pane. From the tool bar menu, select Tools and then click on the ‘Extensions and Updates’:įrom the left pane shown, click on the Online and then search for github from the right pane. To search for this extension, let’s open Visual Studio first. Install GitHub Extension for Visual Studio While it’s true that there is no command or built-in option available in Visual Studio to connect to GitHub, we can leverage one of the extensions available for GitHub.

In this post, we are going to discuss how we can do the same from the very comforts of Visual Studio while we continue to host our source code on the GitHub. In previous post, we discussed about how to work with remotes in Git at command line.

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