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Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by arkitaip »

OutsmartDan wrote: post #12
bouke wrote: post #2

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

Imagine you are in a cave, for no apparent reason, and your computer is no where to be found. The only computer there is a n old school terminal that is somehow running IE11. Your colleague commits something with tabs instead of spaces and you get the notification on your phone. Now you can easily login to VSCode online to re-indent everything with spaces, commit and push it back up, all through your web browser.

Obviously the way to Captain Kirk yourself out of this Kobayashi Maru situation would be to use the ancient terminal to bash your head in.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by Someone1234 »

anilgulecha wrote: post #13
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…

Is this open source? If not, are there any plans to open it up?

edit: This post was wrong. See reply below.

Original post read: They linked directly to the GitHub repo in the post with a LICENSE in it.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by windsurfer »

Someone1234 wrote: post #15
bouke wrote: post #2

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

Edit code directly on Azure Services (e.g. Azure Functions) and real-time test the results of the changes. Aside from that just convenience for developers if you want to develop across multiple devices with internet connectivity (or using an iPad's web-browser), and as an alternative to a remote VM/Nano on a terminal. The use case for VSCode Online is the same as any other remote development environment, combine it w…

What other remote development environments exist? I can only think of cloud9.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by XzAeRosho »

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…

Any plans to support Firefox?

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by judge2020 »

Someone1234 wrote: post #23
anilgulecha wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this open source? If not, are there any plans to open it up?

edit: This post was wrong. See reply below. Original post read: They linked directly to the GitHub repo in the post with a LICENSE in it.

That's the MicrosoftDocs org, there's no source code in that repo.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by Someone1234 »

windsurfer wrote: post #24
Someone1234 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edit code directly on Azure Services (e.g. Azure Functions) and real-time test the results of the changes. Aside from that just convenience for developers if you want to develop across multiple devices with internet connectivity (or using an iPad's web-browser), and as an alternative to a remote VM/Nano on a terminal. The use case for VSCode Online is the same as any other remote development environment, combine it w…

What other remote development environments exist? I can only think of cloud9.

Nano/vim/emacs/etc over a remote (SSH) terminal, remote VM, or remote session via other means (e.g. VNC/RDC/etc). People use Visual Studio itself remotely via VMs and RDC.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by Someone1234 »

judge2020 wrote: post #26
Someone1234 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

edit: This post was wrong. See reply below. Original post read: They linked directly to the GitHub repo in the post with a LICENSE in it.

That's the MicrosoftDocs org, there's no source code in that repo.

Opps. You're right. I don't know then.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by lostintangent »

tumetab1 wrote: post #14
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…

A clean online, and shared, environment seems like a better way to do PR reviews with the author than doing a Live Share. Does the platform support that? Or wants to? What I would like to stop a comment thread and jump to online-video-session to review some code. Live Share works but requires a stable environment by one of the parties which might be troublesome with some code.

The same team that builds Visual Studio Online also builds Live Share, and so we care very deeply about collaboration. That said, you can spin up a new environment for a PR and then start a Live Share session from there. This allows others on the team to jump in, and leave comments, entirely asynchronously, and without requiring a specific “host” to be online.

We have a lot more to do in order to make this scenario truly shine, but we’re very excited about the possibilities moving forward. I’d love to hear more about your specific thoughts on PR reviews, and what kind of workflow your team would find compelling.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by criddell »

gameswithgo wrote: post #9
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. Persona…

> ease of development environment setup

That's a pretty compelling reason for me. There are some projects (like Chrome, Firefox, or even OpenSceneGraph) that aren't trivial to compile entirely from source. It would be pretty sweet to have a ready-to-build environment with the project and all dependencies one click away.

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