GitHub for Visual Studio Extension

Background

GitHub and Microsoft are developing a joint extension to Visual Studio 2015 to be launched at BUILD in the end of April. This extension will be included as part of Visual Studio.

Over time, we'd like to open source the extension and develop it in public, but for this initial release, we have a tight schedule and are constrained in what we can do.

Project Members

Microsoft - ([email protected])

• PM - Anthony Cangialosi ([email protected])
• PM - Cathy Sullivan ([email protected])
• Design - Ron Di Sandro ([email protected])
• Dev - Art Leonard ([email protected])
• Dev - Praveen Sethuraman ([email protected])
• Dev - Jeff Robison ([email protected])

GitHub

• Phil Haack ([email protected])
• Andreia Gaita ([email protected])

Schedule

• March 18 8:00 PM - is when the last change to VS extensibility can happen. (3 weeks of ask mode, 2 weeks of escrow after that)
• April ?? When the last change to the extension itself can occur. We need to factor testing and stabilization time.
• April 29 is Build
• Sprint Calendar

Documents and Assets

https://microsoft.sharepoint.com/teams/DD_VSIDE_GitHub

Contact [email protected] or [email protected] for access to the site.

Prerequisites

Most dependencies are managed via nuget.

Make sure you have the following installed!

• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 SDK CTP 6
• WiX toolset v3.10.0.1502. Don't click on the "Update Available" button, it will downgrade the version

Debugging

You can run and debug in the experimental instance of Visual Studio by doing this:

1. In the properties of the GitHub project go to the debug tab.
2. Select Start external program and set it to devenv.exe:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

3. Add /RootSuffix Exp to the command line arguments.
4. Press F5 to debug.