I started my journey on Thursday when [I tried to automate the task of closing Visual Studio][1] doing the git checkout and then starting Visual studio again. I failed on that account, and [I found that my win7 installation was a bit corrupt][2], but I got some good help and [a comment][3] that got me thinking. So I continued on my quest and on Saturday [I installed powerconsole][4] and [found what I could do with it][5]. By the end of the day and many blogposts later I found a solution that worked. Here is that solution.

Function checkout($branch)
{
  solutionworkingdirectory
  $filename = $dte.Solution.FileName
  $dte.Solution.Close()
  git add .
  git commit -a -m "auto commit before checkout"
  git checkout $branch
  $dte.Solution.Open($filename)
}```
Looks very simple and elegant indeed.

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The only problem being that even a successful checkout seems to result in a exception. But it does not bother me to much. I can now do everything from within Visual Studio and I saved a few keystrokes at the same time.

 [1]: /index.php/DesktopDev/GeneralPurposeLanguages/my-first-steps-in-powershell
 [2]: http://
 [3]: /index.php/DesktopDev/GeneralPurposeLanguages/my-first-steps-in-powershell#c7779
 [4]: /index.php/DesktopDev/GeneralPurposeLanguages/power-console-for-visual-studio
 [5]: /index.php/DesktopDev/GeneralPurposeLanguages/powerconsole-and-removing-the-git