Can't commit changes to GitHub in Visual Studio

Question

I'm pretty new to programming, and I'm having an incredibly difficult time making GitHub and Visual Studio Community 2015 play nice with each other. Usually the first commit goes well, and I can see it on GitHub.com just fine. But it never lets me make any more commits. I make changes to the file, save it, but the commit button in VS stays grayed out. I've been all over the Team Explorer to figure out what I'm doing wrong, and I can't figure it out. It says I have no unpublished changes or anything, even though I'm changing tons of things in the file.

Is there any reason it would stop working after the first commit?

Answer 1

1. Close VS
2. Open the particular .sln file from the repo

This worked for me.