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When you open Visual Studio, there are a number of tool windows that let you interact with your code:

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  1. The Code editor is where you write your code.
  2. The Solution explorer shows the files you’re working with.
  3. The Properties pane gives additional information and context about selected parts of your project.
  4. The Output window displays debugging and error messages, compiler warnings, status messages, and other output.

You can add additional tool windows by using the View menu at the top. For example, the Bookmarks tool window lets you bookmark lines of code for quick access. The layout of your tool windows is highly customizable — you can add additional windows, remove the ones you have open, and move them around to best suit how you work.

Menus

In Visual Studio

At the top of the screen, you’ll see Visual Studio’s menus, which you’ll use to run various commands. Here’s a high level overview of the most important ones:

  1. The File menu contains commands to create, open, and save projects.
  2. The Edit menu contains commands to search, modify, and refactor your code.
  3. The View menu is where you go to open additional tool windows in Visual Studio.
  4. The Project menu lets you add files and dependencies in your project.
  5. The Debug menu contains commands to run your code and use debugger features.
  6. The Tools menu contains commands to change your settings, add functionality to Visual Studio via extensions, and access various Visual Studio tools.

Toolbar

The Visual Studio toolbar, shown below the menus, provides quick access to the most common commands.

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You can change what commands the toolbar contains by going to View → Customize


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GitHub Extension for Visual Studio

The GitHub Extension for Visual Studio makes it easy to connect to and work with your repositories on GitHub and GitHub Enterprise from directly within Visual Studio 2015 or newer. Clone existing repositories or create new ones and start collaborating!

For more information about the extension, visit https://visualstudio.github.com/.

For feedback and bug reports, please email support@github.com.

Features

  1. Connect - From the Team Explorer section, click the Connect... button in the GitHub invitation section to login to the extension. The extension supports two-factor authentication (2fa) with GitHub and stores credentials in the Windows Credential store so that Git Operations within Visual Studio work with your GitHub repositories. The extension also supports logging into a GitHub Enterprise instance.
  2. Clone - Once connected, click on the Clone button to list all repositories that you have access to on GitHub.
  3. Create - The create dialog lets you create a repository on GitHub.com and locally that are connected together.
  4. Publish - For a local-only repository, click on the Sync navigation item to get the GitHub publish control. This make it quick to publish your local work up to GitHub.
  5. Open in Visual Studio - once you log-in with the extension, GitHub.com will show a new button next to repositories labeled 'Open in VisualStudio.' Click on the button to clone the repository to Visual Studio.
  6. Create Gist - Create gists by using the GitHub context menu when you right-click on selected text
  7. Open/Link to GitHub - Easily open on GitHub or share a link to the code you're working on by using the GitHub context menu.
  8. Pull Requests - View your repository's Pull Requests and create new ones from the Pull Requests button in the Team Explorer Home
  9. See Pull Request diffs - See all Pull Request changes as individual diff views and open changed files directly from the Pull Request details view
  10. Review Pull Requests - Start a review and submit a review that comments, approves, or request changes to the Pull Request
  11. Inline Comments - Add review comments to the Pull Request changes you're reviewing directly from the VS diff view
  12. Fork - From Team Explorer Home, fork a repository you have already cloned.

Requirements

Visual Studio 2015 and above