Getting Started with GitHub and Visual Studio 2017

Introduction
Want to get started using git with Visual Studio but you're not sure what to do, how to get started, or you are confused by the command line? Good news, everyone! You can do nearly everything you want right from within Visual Studio 2017. All you need is the GitHub extension for Visual Studio, and a GitHub account. For my demonstration I am using a Pro account so I have the option for private repositories but this will work for free accounts as well.

I wrote this because I couldn't find a step by step instruction how-to that didn't assume you were using Microsoft Team Services or using the git command line.

In my usual style, this is terse and to the point, and a little rough around the edges. I hope you find this useful. Enjoy!
Prerequisites
Install Visual Studio 2017
Install GitHub extension for Visual Studio



How To #1: Push an existing project into GitHub
(and connect to GitHub for the first time)
Open existing local solution in Visual Studio
Click "Add to Source Control"→“Git” located in the lower right corner of Visual Studio IDE


If you haven’t signed into GitHub yet on this computer, click the Sign in button below


Enter your two-factor verification, if necessary


Fill in the form to Publish to Github, and click Publish

Adjust the Settings so non-essential files are not uploaded to git.  Click Settings.


Click Repository Settings

Click Edit next to .gitIgnore

Add the text indicated below


Click Save, then click the Home icon, then click Changes

Here, you see the change you made to .gitignore.  


You have 3 choices for committing your changes --
  1. Commit All to your “local” repository (the copy on your local computer only)
  2. Commit All and Push to github (writes the changes locally and to github)
  3. Commit All and Sync to github, which downloads any changes that were committed to Git by others and merges those changes with your code automatically (if possible).  If there are conflicts you will be given the chance to manually merge the changes.
In this case, Commit All and Push is what we want.
First, we are reminded to save our project ...

If we browse to the git repository, we see our committed change.


How To #2: Open a github project
Launch Visual Studio
Click File→Open→Open from Source Control


Click Clone




Select repository,  local path, and click Clone
Wait for clone operation to finish


Side by side comparison of local and remote


Local File View (in Visual Studio)
Remote Repository View (in GitHub)
Right Click Solution file and select “Open”
Switching between File-System View and Solution View
Solution View
File-System View
Lets make some more changes.
Delete the .bak and .junk folders from the file system (right-side-pane view).
Now lets review what is going to be committed
Annotate and commit
Click Commit All
Then lets Sync and Push the changes to the Server.  
Click Sync

Then click Push
And now the junk is gone.
EOF.

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