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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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I'm getting a weird error: AADSTS50020: User account 'me@captnemo.in' from external identity provider 'live.com' is not supported for application 'caf83767-0da8-454f-ae8d-77f63deaf359'. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant. Please sign out and sign in again with an Azure Active Directory user account. I'm guessing only proper microsoft accounts are allowed? (@outlook.com, @live.com etc). I…

The download will be available by around 11AM PT today. Hold tight!

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#62

Wow. I seriously don't know what to think anymore. What is their end game? Which platform are they hoping to become / remain dominant in? Don't get me wrong---I'm as happy as the next guy about this. VS is the only tolerable language-dedicated IDE, if they take 25% of their VS engineering mantra to this it will be better than almost anything else. But where does it end? I am clearly so not in touch with my inner mba.…

I think they understand that the long run is not in platform dependency.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#63
Cross platform developers tools by Microsoft! Great news! MS has some of the best developer tools out there. In my opinion, the only downside has been the dependency on the Windows platform. As a developer, I feel much more comfortable in a Unix environment.

This move was unthinkable a decade ago. I'm very glad to see MS moving in this direction. Just because of this announcement I want to start playing with TypeScript and C# again.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Is it webtech based(built with html/css/js) or hardtech based(C++,QT whatever...) since they are talking about Monaco,it looks webtech based. nice.

Since its webtech it will interesting to see the speed vs atom and sublime

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Tried -- failed. Login through MS, then get screen that it's unavailable. Come on, MS.

More than a year ago I skipped the page that asked me to enable the two-factor authentication, as I didn't want to give Microsoft my phone number. One day I found myself completely locked out of my account. Long story short, I've never been able to access my email account again, since that day. The instructions to unblock the account [1], say, I shit you not:

>"To unblock your account go to https://account.live.com and sign in to your blocked account."

If I try to enter my number, I get an unspecified error and I'm still locked out. Obviously. But not to worry, the page says:

>"If you can’t unblock your account with the security code and changing your password, customer support can still help you get your account back. To contact customer support, you’ll need to sign in to your account, and fill out an online form."

...

I really don't know what kind of brain-dead monkeys they put in charge of these things. And while it's hard to believe that a functioning human being could ever come up with such a bullet-proof procedure to unblock an account blocked for "security reasons", what really baffles me is that this has been going on for almost two years. This should give you an idea of how much Microsoft cares about their consumer products.

So, consider yourself lucky to have gone past the login, which, apparently, isn't something to take for granted with Microsoft.

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook/account-t...

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#66

Wow. I seriously don't know what to think anymore. What is their end game? Which platform are they hoping to become / remain dominant in? Don't get me wrong---I'm as happy as the next guy about this. VS is the only tolerable language-dedicated IDE, if they take 25% of their VS engineering mantra to this it will be better than almost anything else. But where does it end? I am clearly so not in touch with my inner mba.…

It ties into Azure services. As I understand it, you're not bound to Azure, but it's an easy path from VS Code.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#67

I'm curious about how the editor itself was built. Is it itself written with cross-platform .NET? And if so, what UI library? Edit: Got my answer. Electron and TypeScript: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/593454574297427968

How is the editing experience? Is it faster than Atom?

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#69

Wow. I seriously don't know what to think anymore. What is their end game? Which platform are they hoping to become / remain dominant in? Don't get me wrong---I'm as happy as the next guy about this. VS is the only tolerable language-dedicated IDE, if they take 25% of their VS engineering mantra to this it will be better than almost anything else. But where does it end? I am clearly so not in touch with my inner mba.…

My hypothesis is that winning over developers to use their platform will eventually result in more Azure users. I get the feeling Azure will be their one of their next cash cows, and this is one of the steps in enabling that.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

#70

I'm curious about how the editor itself was built. Is it itself written with cross-platform .NET? And if so, what UI library? Edit: Got my answer. Electron and TypeScript: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/593454574297427968

It'll be interesting to see what the performance is like, since this has been a recurring problem with web-tech based applications (especially editors like Atom and Brackets).
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