You can use a local Git repository, or work with Git in Azure Devops and Visual Studio Team Services. Code can be quickly branched for your own work, creating local branches from remote masters.

As a Visual Studio user, I would like to see files status in solution explorer. Otherwise I just don't have the feeling that the files are controlled by any source code management system.

"Use the new 'Add AI Generated Commit Message' sparkle pen icon in the Git Changes window to generate a suggestion," Houghton said. "GitHub Copilot will look at the file changes in your commit, ...

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 ...

This means Visual Studio users, for example, can now use GitHub and other Git-compatible repositories to host and manage their projects.