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Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

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Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

#21
Looks amazing.

Looks like an improved version of Playgrounds for Xcode. The improved part is that this seems to work for your regular code base, where Playground isn't (as far as I know) bundled with your application.

Though I suspect the Xcode team is probably working on that :)

Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

#22

As a C# developer I am tempted to buy, but this paid beta thing is kind of scary

I think they need to offer a 365 day 100% money back guarantee if not satisfied for any reason.

Then the buyer takes less risk, the seller still knows they are a 'real buyer' not a freebee seeker because pulling out the credit card is still a commitment, even if you decide to get a refund later.

Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

#23

As a C# developer I am tempted to buy, but this paid beta thing is kind of scary

I think they need to offer a 365 day 100% money back guarantee if not satisfied for any reason. Then the buyer takes less risk, the seller still knows they are a 'real buyer' not a freebee seeker because pulling out the credit card is still a commitment, even if you decide to get a refund later.

I'd probably just give a 60-day money-back guarantee seeing as 1.0 is set for release around October. By then, if the features you're regularly using aren't ironed out it'd make sense to refund.

Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

#24

Damn this is cool! Does it work with external libraries and project functions? This would be amazing, the amount of times I do this sort of testing in unit test projects considerably hinders my development time. And for $89/yr that's easily worth it! excitement intensifies How do I buy it? I'd like to do a video review, but when I click on "Buy" it links to " https://comealive.io/#" ... D'oh! Looks like AdBlock break…

Yup it should work fine with external libraries and project functions. Basically: If your tests can run it, Alive can run it.

That's bizarre that AdBlock breaks it for you. Hopefully everything works now (if not let me know and we can try to figure it out)

Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

#26
post #24

Damn this is cool! Does it work with external libraries and project functions? This would be amazing, the amount of times I do this sort of testing in unit test projects considerably hinders my development time. And for $89/yr that's easily worth it! excitement intensifies How do I buy it? I'd like to do a video review, but when I click on "Buy" it links to " https://comealive.io/#" ... D'oh! Looks like AdBlock break…

Yup it should work fine with external libraries and project functions. Basically: If your tests can run it, Alive can run it. That's bizarre that AdBlock breaks it for you. Hopefully everything works now (if not let me know and we can try to figure it out)

Note: You may have innocent seeming paths that get tripped up by adblock -- for example "/banners" anywhere in your file path trips it up

Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

#28

Really cool ! Do you guys have any plan to expand other languages or IDEs ?

Definitely. Unfortunately each language/IDE takes a pretty long time to support. I'm fairly sure we can (theoretically) grow to support most popular languages outside of C/C++.

We take suggestions at: http://github.com/CodeConnect/AliveFeedback

Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

#29
post #28

Really cool ! Do you guys have any plan to expand other languages or IDEs ?

Definitely. Unfortunately each language/IDE takes a pretty long time to support. I'm fairly sure we can (theoretically) grow to support most popular languages outside of C/C++. We take suggestions at: http://github.com/CodeConnect/AliveFeedback

I think JetBrains would be a good target, no?

Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

#30
post #24

Damn this is cool! Does it work with external libraries and project functions? This would be amazing, the amount of times I do this sort of testing in unit test projects considerably hinders my development time. And for $89/yr that's easily worth it! excitement intensifies How do I buy it? I'd like to do a video review, but when I click on "Buy" it links to " https://comealive.io/#" ... D'oh! Looks like AdBlock break…

Yup it should work fine with external libraries and project functions. Basically: If your tests can run it, Alive can run it. That's bizarre that AdBlock breaks it for you. Hopefully everything works now (if not let me know and we can try to figure it out)

Here's my console, there's a few things blocked. Very odd, must be a few false-positives: http://i.imgur.com/RAxDbpZ.png

There's a reference to: https://comealive.io/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

Which doesn't exist (404).

Will give it a run when I get home.

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