1. How Do You Download From Github For Beginners
2. How Do You Download From Github For Windows
3. How Do You Download From Github Windows 10
4. How To Download From Github Command Line

How to clone, modify, add, and delete files in Git. Say you already have a Git repo on GitHub and you want to get your files from it—maybe you lost the local copy on your computer or you're working on a different computer and want access to the files in your repository. What should you do? Download your files from GitHub?

I wrote this article here about setting up GitHub in Visual Studio 2015 and felt it necessary to document the same in Visual Studio 2017. Here is how I setup GitHub source code management in Visual Studio 2017 Community.

• Install the GitHub extension for Visual Studio
• Create your GitHub repo and then login
• Create a GitHub repository
• Create a project for the repository
• Add the source code to GitHub

Check out these 2 articles about including 4.6.2 and C# 7 capabilities into Visual Studio 2017, also discussed later on.

NOTE: After completing this configuration, I did not find any difference between the GitHub setup in Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017, they work both the same.

In Visual Studio select Tools -> Extensions and Updates which open the window show in Figure 1. Download and install the extension, a reboot of Visual Studio was required for me.

_{Figure 1, GitHub for Visual Studio}

If you do not already have an account on GitHub then you need to create on. Create it and then come back to this point. Once created, use the credentials to login to your GitHub account, as shown in Figure 2.

_{Figure 2, login to GitHub from Visual Studio}

Now create GitHub repository by selecting the Create button on the Team Explorer tab in Visual Studio, as show in Figure 3.

_{Figure 3, create a GitHub repository from Visual Studio for Visual Studio}

When you click on the Create link, a window similar to that shown in Figure 4 is rendered. Enter the name of the repository, a description and the local location where you would like to store the source code. I use the default.

_{Figure 4, create a GitHub repo using Visual Studio}

After clicking on the Create button shown in Figure 4 and once the repository is created locally, you are prompted to create a Project to store into it. Similar to that shown in Figure 5.

_{Figure 5, create a project to store in GitHub from Visual Studio}

For this example, I am creating an ASP.NET Core Web Application using .NET 4.6.2 (the newest at the time of this blogs creation) which also supports Web API calls, JIC I decide to add some troubleshooting of WEB APIs later. Check out these 2 articles about including 4.6.2 and C# 7 capabilities into Visual Studio 2017.

As seen in Figure 6, I select an ASP.NET Core Web Application and on the next windows I select ASP.NET Core 1.1 and Web Application.

_{Figure 6, create a project for GitHub from Visual Studio}

Once the project is created, click on the Team Explorer tab, and expand the Project tree. Click on the Changes button as shown in Figure 7.

_{Figure 7, commit changes to the GitHub repo using Visual Studio}

Clicking on the Changes button navigates to the page shown in Figure 8. Enter a description and press the Commit button, as shown in Figure 8.

_{Figure 8, commit the initial project to GitHub from Visual Studio}

Once committed, synchronize the locally committed source code to the public source hosted on GitHub. As seen in Figure 9, after the commit is complete, you are requested to Sync the changes using the Sync link. You can also Sync them at a later time by clicking the Sync button shown previously in Figure 7.

_{Figure 9, synchronize code with GitHub from Visual Studio}

On the Synchronization page, click the Push link to synchronize the changes, as shown in Figure 10

_{Figure 10, Push the code from a local GitHub to a public GitHub using Visual Studio}

Once complete, you can see the code is public on the GitHub site using a browser, as seen in Figure 11.

_{Figure 11, viewing the source on GitHub}

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