Source Control
Applies to: 
Visual Studio 
Visual Studio for Mac
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This section discusses the options for implementing source control as an integrated feature of Visual Studio, either through a source control plug-in or a source control VSPackage.
In This Section
Presents the important information that you must have to start working with source control.
An overview of the two available options for implementing source control.
Discusses how to create a source control plug-in that supplies source control functionality through the Visual Studio source control user interface (UI).
Discusses how to create a source control VSPackage that not only supplies source control functionality but can be used to customize the Visual Studio source control UI.
Related Sections
Reference for the Source Control Plug-in API.
Describes how to use Visual Studio projects and solutions to organize code files and resource files, and how to implement source control.