Visual Studio online available for public preview

Hey All! I’m a PM on the Visual Studio Online team (as well as Live Share and IntelliCode), and we’re extremely excited to have more developers try out the product. Our goal is to dramatically reduce the cost of setup/onboarding, enable better team/classroom collaboration, and further support remote development. We believe that having on-demand, cloud-powered dev environments, that are accessible from VS Code and the web, provides a huge step towards achieving that.

Let us know if you have any questions/comments/feedback, since we’re very keen to begin working with the broader developer community, and learning how we can continue to improve. Otherwise, check out the service (https://aka.ms/vso), and then let us know what you think (https://GitHub.com/microsoftdocs/vsonline).

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by tumetab1 » Mon, Nov 04, 2019, 3:19 PM UTC

bouke wrote: post #2

What is the use case for a hosted Visual Studio Code?

From the site...

  Whether you’re working on a long-term project, a short-lived feature branch, or want to quickly review a pull request, Visual Studio Online can help you be more productive by providing a fully configured development environment in minutes. By pointing to a Git repo, Visual Studio Online sets up everything you need to focus on being productive:
  
  * Source code
  * Runtimes
  * Linters & debuggers
  * Extensions

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 04, 2019, 3:19 PM UTC

bouke wrote: post #2

What is the use case for a hosted Visual Studio Code?

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Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by gameswithgo » Mon, Nov 04, 2019, 3:20 PM UTC

bouke wrote: post #2

What is the use case for a hosted Visual Studio Code?

There is a startup here in Austin trying to create a business around the idea:

https://coder.com/

I think some people see value in it as a security feature, or ease of development environment setup. There are also collaborative code editing features. You can both get into a file and type in it at the same time. You can get into your project and work on it from any machine, anywhere, even a phone, potentially.

Personally though, I would never take a job where you do most of your coding in the cloud.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by sosuke » Mon, Nov 04, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

lostintangent wrote: post #6

Hey All! I’m a PM on the Visual Studio Online team (as well as Live Share and IntelliCode), and we’re extremely excited to have more developers try out the product. Our goal is to dramatically reduce the cost of setup/onboarding, enable better team/classroom collaboration, and further support remote development. We believe that having on-demand, cloud-powered dev environments, that are accessible from VS Code and the…

If you have a moment could you send me an email? Mine is in my profile. I'd love to try out this product but there is something that has prevented me from using it. I'm hoping you might be able to get me to the right help I need.