{"id":5205,"date":"2014-04-28T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2014-04-26T00:40:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T23:40:13","slug":"publishing-to-github-from-visual-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/04\/publishing-to-github-from-visual-studio.htm","title":{"rendered":"Publishing to GitHub from Visual Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who follow me on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\">@markwilsonit<\/a>) may be aware that I&#8217;m\u00a0attempting to learn some C# skills in my spare time (what little of that I have). \u00a0It&#8217;s not my first foray into coding &#8211; I have a Computer Studies degree and, in my youth I\u00a0wrote code in a variety of\u00a0languages (BASIC, C, Turbo Pascal, Modula-2, 68000 assembler, COBOL, Visual Basic, C++ and probably some others too) but aside from a little bit of C++ on the Arduino and the odd bit of PowerShell, I haven&#8217;t done much in the last 20\u00a0years. \u00a0As my career moves further towards management I&#8217;m increasingly convinced it&#8217;s technology I enjoy though &#8211; and I&#8217;m seriously considering a\u00a0move from infrastructure to software&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following a <a href=\"http:\/\/pluralsight.com\/training\/Courses\/TableOfContents\/csharp-fundamentals-csharp5\">Pluralsight C# course from Scott Allen<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ode2code\">@ode2code<\/a>) and, part way through, Scott uses System.Speech\u00a0to demonstrate adding references to assemblies. \u00a0I had a play, adapting something I&#8217;d written earlier to\u00a0talk to me as well as output to the console &#8211; nothing grand &#8211; just a bit of fun. \u00a0After showing it to my sons,\u00a0the eldest (who is 9), described it as &#8220;epic&#8221; (which I understand\u00a0is pretty good) and I tweeted, only to be amused by a\u00a0reply which suggested the same library had caused hilarity in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dotsmart.net\/\">Duncan Smart<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/duncansmart\">@DuncanSmart<\/a>)&#8217;s household:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\">@markwilsonit<\/a> Add a\u00a0reference to System.Speech, mine thought it was hilarious <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y8CZhw6nQy\">https:\/\/t.co\/y8CZhw6nQy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Duncan Smart (@duncansmart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/duncansmart\/statuses\/459747550153932800\">April 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Small world, eh!<\/p>\n<p>I followed the link to Duncan&#8217;s code and thought &#8220;Hmm&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/storing-arduino-code-in-the-cloud.htm\">GitHub&#8230; I use that for my Arduino code&#8230;<\/a> I wonder if&#8230;&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0and yes, Visual Studio can publish to GitHub too. \u00a0It took some work to suss it out though, so here&#8217;s what I did (<a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/19982053\/how-do-i-add-an-existing-solution-to-github-from-visual-studio-2013\">following advice on StackOverflow<\/a>)&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In Visual Studio, select File then Add to Source Control (which creates a local Git repository)<\/li>\n<li>On GitHub, create a new reposotory (but don&#8217;t initialise it with a\u00a0README &#8211; Visual Studio wants an empty repository.<\/li>\n<li>Copy the HTTPS URI for the new repo, then go back to Visual Studio, open Team Explorer, select Home then Unsynced Commits and enter the GitHub URL before clicking Publish.<\/li>\n<li>You may find that you have to commit the changes locally first, which in my case required creating a local username and supplying an email address.<\/li>\n<li>After committing, the solution should be visible on GitHub.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For reference, I was using Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who follow me on Twitter (@markwilsonit) may be aware that I&#8217;m\u00a0attempting to learn some C# skills in my spare time (what little of that I have). \u00a0It&#8217;s not my first foray into coding &#8211; 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