The GitHub Extension for Visual Studio provides GitHub integration in Visual Studio 2015 and newer. Most of the extension UI lives in the Team Explorer pane, which is available from the View menu.

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

Microsoft has rolled out GPT-5 to all paid GitHub Copilot plans in Visual Studio, introducing Agent Mode and Ask Mode.

News Visual Studio Gets GPT-5 By David Ramel 08/12/2025 Microsoft today announced OpenAI's latest and greatest frontier AI model is now available to the GitHub Copilot tool within the company's ...