How to Link GitHub with Visual Studio?

Linking GitHub with Visual Studio allows you to manage your code repositories, collaborate with others, and streamline your development workflow directly from your IDE. Visual Studio provides integrated tools for cloning, creating, and managing GitHub repositories.

Prerequisite:

• Visual Studio installed
• GitHub Account

Approach to link GitHub with Visual Studio

Here is the stepwise process to link GitHub to Visual Studio

Step 1: Open Visual Studio.

Launch Visual Studio from your desktop or start menu.

Step 2: Open the account settings.

Go to File > Account Settings.

Step 3: Add an account and Select GitHub.

Step 4: Sign in with your GitHub credentials.

If your GitHub account is already open in the browser cache, the below interface will be opened.

After authorization, GitHub asked for your account password.

Step 5: After the password authorization, the below message will be visible.

Step 6: Now, we can see the linked GitHub account in Visual Studio in account settings.

From here we can create, clone, and push to the repository in Git Hub. we can manage repositories, branches, commits and sync changes.

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