Resources for using the popular distributed source code control and collaboration tools Git and Mercurial on Windows.

Visual Studio Code now supports discovery for nested Git repositories and improves autoscrolling, among other features.

The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 is now out, offering new AI capabilities and even ways to scale back AI ...

GitSync for Plastic SCM has been released with support for native Git network protocols and Visual Studio 2012 support.

Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2 also introduces customizable Code Cleanup profiles. These run automatically whenever a file is saved and will help minimize stylistic violations within PRs.

Microsoft has announced that it made several performance improvements in Visual Studio 2022 in the 17.3 release. Mainly these enhancements relate to Git branch switching and C++.

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 brings significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while a version 17.7 preview adds more productivity improvements.

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

GitHub releases Copilot Free for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Developers can use programming help free of charge.