About P4VS

P4VS, the Helix Plugin for Visual Studio , enables you to use Helix Core as your source control from within Visual Studio.

Basic Perforce Terminology

The following diagram shows the relationship between workspace and depot:

The relationship between a workspace and a depot

Basic Tasks

Using Solution Explorer with P4VS

Solution Explorer provides access to most P4VS functionality and status information.

Context-click a file and select Refresh in the context menu to refresh Helix Core status information for the file and any of its children.

Note

If you select Automatically update files status when selection changes in the P4VS Preferences, the file’s Helix Core status updates automatically when you click or hover over the file icon, without having to click Refresh.

Using P4VS toolbars in Visual Studio

P4VS provides the following toolbars that you can use with Visual Studio:

To enable these toolbars, select View > Toolbars.

To enable these toolbars and customize them to show only a subset of the available options, select Tools > Customize.

For more information

Watch our P4VS tutorial video: https://www.perforce.com/video-tutorials/plugin-visual-studio

For more information about how to use Helix Core, see Solutions Overview: Helix Version Control System.

For the P4VS release notes, see https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/user/p4vsnotes.txt.