Microsoft has announced that it made several performance improvements in Visual Studio 2022 in the 17.3 release. Mainly these enhancements relate to Git branch switching and C++.

Git-related improvements in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.1 allow developers to compare a current branch with other branches in their repository, making it easier to keep track of branches while ...

The company announced that GPT-5 is now integrated into the IDE, and support for MCP is generally available as well.

GitSync for Plastic SCM has been released with support for native Git network protocols and Visual Studio 2012 support.

Resources for using the popular distributed source code control and collaboration tools Git and Mercurial on Windows.

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 brings significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while a version 17.7 preview adds more productivity improvements.

Microsoft has rolled out Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2, which contains a ton of enhancements related to Git, C++, .NET, and macOS development. Color tabs are finally supported too.

The Git Experience is available as the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019 as of version 16.8.