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In this video, we install the GitHub extension in Visual Studio.
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Hi there, I'm Carling, and I want to show
you how to use Github with Visual Studio.
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Github is a source control
hosting provider that uses Git.
0:10
A lot of popular open source projects
use GitHub for collaboration.
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The open sourced asp.net and
.netcore are hosted on Github, and
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you can even make contributions.
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If you don't have a GitHub account,
it's easy to create one and it's free for
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you to host public repositories.
0:27
We'll be installing and
using the GitHub extension
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along with using the Git integration
tools that come with Visual Studio.
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If you're not familiar with Git or
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source control in general,
make sure to check out our course on Git.
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If you're familiar with Git but
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haven't used GitHub,
then check out our course on GitHub.
0:42
Links to those courses
are in the teacher's notes.
0:45
After this workshop, you'll be comfortable
with using GitHub in Visual Studio to
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track your changes, keep your code
safe and share it with others.
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We'll be using the community
edition of Visual Studio 2015.
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It's free to use, so if you don't have
it installed, pause the video and
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check out the link in the Teachers Notes
to get everything set up.
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Here we are in Visual Studio 2015.
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I wanna point out that Visual Studio
has Git integration already, but
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the GitHub extension will let us
do more with GitHub repositories.
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Let's click on Tools and
then Extensions and Updates.
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Here's a list of our installed extensions.
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Now there's actually a way to
include the GitHub extension during
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the initial install of Visual Studio,
so you may already see it in this list.
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In the sidebar expand the Online option,
this extension is
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pretty popular among developers, so
here it is near the top of the list.
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If you don't see it, type in GitHub
in the upper right search box, and
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it should appear in the results.
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You can make sure you've got the right
one by checking that it's made by
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GitHub at the top of the Metadata pane.
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Click the Download button.
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Accept the terms.
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And then restart Visual Studio.
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In Visual Studio,
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most source control functions are in
the team explorer panel here.
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We now have GitHub in
the Hosted Service Providers section.
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If you don't have an account,
click on Sign Up, and
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it will open a browser window to
the sign up page on github.com.
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