Next, you will be prompted for GitHub credentials, enter that to sync or publish Visual Studio project to GitHub repository. On the next screen, enter GitHub Repository URL (from step 1) and click on publish. In the Team Explorer, click on the Home icon and then select Sync option. Next open Team Explorer by pressing Ctrl+M or opening from View->Team Explorer. In Visual Studio Solution Explorer, right click on the solution and click on Add Solution to Source Control. Open the visual studio solution, you want to publish to GitHub repository in Visual Studio. After downloading follow the screens to install git on windows. We need GitHub repository URL later in Visual Studio. Once the repository is created, click on Clone or download dropdown and copy the web URL as shown in the image below. If you do so, you will get some error while syncing the project to the repository.

Make sure not to initialize the repository with a README.

Whether to initialize the repository with a README.

Whether repository is public or private.

Next, you need to provide information such as:

I am assuming that you have already created an account on GitHub. To do that navigate to and click on + sign to create a new repository. Start with creating a Repository on GitHub. We need to follow steps as mentioned below to share project. Syncing or Sharing project from Visual Studio in GitHub Repository How to clone a GitHub Repository in Visual Studio?.

How to sync or share a project from Visual Studio to a GitHub Repository.

This blog post would help you in answering following two questions: In this blog post, we will learn how to work with GitHub repository and Visual Studio 2015. The GitHub is one of the most popular code sharing platforms, which follows GIT algorithm for version control.

Visual studio github tutorial