Installing Git for Windows using Windows Web Platform Installer

Microsoft has released a great way to install a variety of software, from WordPress to Git using an easy simple to use web installer.

I’ve recently started using Team Foundation Service  and Visual Studio 2012, one of the great features is using different source control repositories, giving you endless options to manage source code. In this post I am going to show how easy it is to install Git using Windows Web Platform Installer.

First you would need to download Microsoft Web Platform Installer from  http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx.

After installing the web platform installer, search for Git for Windows and select install.

The web platform installer will look for any prerequisites (Databases / support languages etc)

And now we are ready to install, after clicking install the web platform installer will download all the required components and install them. You can now use Git with Visual Studio. This could not be easier!

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