Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub is complete, and former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman is now in charge of the cloud code management service. It wasn’t a surprising acquisition: Over the last few years, ...

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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Microsoft today released a small update to its Visual Studio 2012 Tools for Git. Microsoft Technical Fellow Brian Harry blogged today about the update, which carries the version number 0.9.5.0. To use ...

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 ...

Microsoft has been mapping out plans to improve its Git Virtual File System (GVFS), including linking it to the Visual Studio IDE and getting it supported in third-party Git clients. GVFS is an ...

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 ...