title: Visual Studio: How to create project from existing GitHub repository?
body: <p>I came from Eclipse background and I am apparently missing something. </p>
  
  <p>There is an existing GitHub project with JS code in it and I would like to start adding TypeScript nature to it, one type at a time.</p>
  
  <p>I have followed <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2013/02/06/set-up-connect-and-publish-using-visual-studio-with-git.aspx#clone">this tutorial</a> to clone project from GitHub to my "local git repository". Now the Team Explorer window displays it as local repository and I can commit changes etc but it's not a project and I don't know how to open it as a project (I want to open it as <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=34790">TypeScript project</a>).</p>
  
  <p>The workflow I was used to from Eclipse would simply be New -> Other -> SVN -> Checkout Projects from SVN that is automatically followed by New Project Wizard.</p>
  
  <p><strong>How do I clone existing JS project from GitHub and make it a TypeScrip project while keeping the existing folder structure?</strong></p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I am using Visual Studio Express and I am limited to the <a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/abafc7d6-dcaa-40f4-8a5e-d6724bdb980c">native Git extension</a>.</p>