You can either add your information or edit the default information it provides. You might be asked for your user sign-in information in the Git User Information dialog box. :::image type='content' source='./ide/media/vs-2022/clone-repository-enter-location.png' alt-text='Screenshot of the Clone a Repository dialog in Visual Studio where you enter a Git repo URL.'::: :::image type='content' source='./ide/media/vs-2022/clone-repository.png' alt-text='Screenshot of the Clone a Repository dialog in Visual Studio.':::Įnter or type the repository location, and then select the Clone button. On the start window, select Clone a repository. You can do so when you start Visual Studio, or you can do so directly from within the Visual Studio IDE.

Visual Studio makes it easy to open a project from a repo. ::: moniker range='vs-2022' Open a project from a GitHub repo If you haven't already installed Visual Studio, go to the Visual Studio downloads page to install it for free. In this tutorial, you'll use Visual Studio to connect to a repository for the first time, clone it, and then open a project from it.

Using github with visual studio