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Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by lullibrulli »

lostintangent wrote: post #71
joecot wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there documentation somewhere for the self-hosted environment option, which according to the product landing page and pricing page is no cost? I'm guessing the flow there is to use VSCode through the online site, but give ssh credentials to one of your servers that's running the Remote SSH VSCode environment. But once I go to Create an Environment, there's no option for a self-hosted one.

Yep! Check out this doc and let us know if you have any questions/feedback: https://aka.ms/vso-docs/vscode/self-hosted .

Thanks! So if I understand correctly I still need an azure account for self hosting, although nothing will be billed?

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by patatino »

thrower123 wrote: post #48
Hates_ wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being able to code on my iPad Pro would be one for me.

I assume that if you're trying to do this, you've got a keyboard attached to your iPad - I think I'd rather stick forks in my eyes than try to code with an on-screen keyboard. So at that point, why not just use a laptop?

No need for two devices? I‘m waiting until I can ditch my notebook and have a tablet for everything, including coding

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by ArtWomb »

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…

Love it! Linux backend is cool too ;)

Is there a stand-alone that I can host and run in a cloud vm myself?

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by lostintangent »

ebg13 wrote: post #73
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…

> the Visual Studio Online team...VS Code... So this is NOT Visual Studio but rather VSCode? Do you have insight into why Microsoft keeps making misleading product names? Would it be so horrible to name it VSCode Online instead of Visual Studio Online? > Let us know if you have any questions The website says "Use the programming languages and frameworks of your choice". Will that include building and debugging C++ Wi…

While we released the public preview of the VS Code and web based clients, we also released a private preview of the VS client, which is actually fully optimized to support C#/C++ development. If you’re interested in giving it a try, sign up and we’ll get in touch with you soon!

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-on...

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by Dayshine »

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…

Hi, I'm the author of a niche language server extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tboby.cw...).

Is there any guidance on what I would need to do to support VSO? Do I need to do anything?

I'm a bit concerned that it sounds like I have to pay in order to write/test environments. Do you not think this will be a barrier to adoption?

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by melling »

thrower123 wrote: post #48
Hates_ wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being able to code on my iPad Pro would be one for me.

I assume that if you're trying to do this, you've got a keyboard attached to your iPad - I think I'd rather stick forks in my eyes than try to code with an on-screen keyboard. So at that point, why not just use a laptop?

I build Swift playgrounds on my iPad. With great code completion using an on screen keyboard is fine for small prototypes.

I wish I could simply say a new variable or function and have it inserted.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by lostintangent »

Dayshine wrote: post #85
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…

Hi, I'm the author of a niche language server extension ( https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tboby.cw... ). Is there any guidance on what I would need to do to support VSO? Do I need to do anything? I'm a bit concerned that it sounds like I have to pay in order to write/test environments. Do you not think this will be a barrier to adoption?

Your extension should “just work”. And yes, we have a self-hosted environment solution that you can use to test out your extension in the web, and it’s entirely free: https://aka.ms/vso-docs/vscode/self-hosted.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by Havoc »

ebg13 wrote: post #73
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…

> the Visual Studio Online team...VS Code... So this is NOT Visual Studio but rather VSCode? Do you have insight into why Microsoft keeps making misleading product names? Would it be so horrible to name it VSCode Online instead of Visual Studio Online? > Let us know if you have any questions The website says "Use the programming languages and frameworks of your choice". Will that include building and debugging C++ Wi…

>So this is NOT Visual Studio but rather VSCode?

Well I just tried it and it's aimed at the feel of VSCode.

>Microsoft keeps making misleading product names

What's with the hostility?

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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Post by Hates_ »

thrower123 wrote: post #48
Hates_ wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being able to code on my iPad Pro would be one for me.

I assume that if you're trying to do this, you've got a keyboard attached to your iPad - I think I'd rather stick forks in my eyes than try to code with an on-screen keyboard. So at that point, why not just use a laptop?

The Apple folio keyboard is actually really good. Even compared to my 12" Macbook the 11" iPad Pro is still more portable, plus I use the Apple Pencil a lot.
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