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Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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My favorite is their cloud platform, Azure, named after the color of a clear blue sky.

Personally, I low how they used the name C# for two completely different languages ( https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2009/10/05/my-history... ).

Admittedly, most will never have heard of the older one.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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post #80

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And that is all before you get to the frameworks. The latest "ASP" framework is called "ASP.NET Core" which succeeded "ASP.NET 4" and confusingly is available for both ".NET Framework" and ".NET Core".

The cherry on top is what they plan on calling the next major release. You guessed it! .NET 6.

.NET 5, actually.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

#123
post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite is their cloud platform, Azure, named after the color of a clear blue sky.

Personally, I low how they used the name C# for two completely different languages ( https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2009/10/05/my-history... ).

Also, C# can be read as C++++.

    C ++
      ++

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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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?

Correct. Though we’d love to hear feedback on this experience.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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post #91

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…

Excited about this. >Let us know if you have any questions/comments/feedback 1) Shortcut keys. I hit some shortcut during my hello world testing that didn't have the expected effect (because browser). Given how keyboard heavy developing is are there any plans on unifying this more somehow - VS / VSC / VSO? 2) I gather this is still free, but I assume this will be running off azure credits later? 3) The machines seeme…

Yes to #1 and #2.

For #3, we’ll be adding a “Basic” SKU soon, that includes 2 cores and 4 GB RAM. Would that be sufficient for your use cases? You can track the progress of this enhancement here: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/vsonline/issues/54.

#4: Thanks for the feedback! I’ll look into improving that text this week.

#5: Yep! You can track the progress of this enhancement here: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/vsonline/issues/192.

Re: Visual Studio online available for public preview

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

Correct. Though we’d love to hear feedback on this experience.

I'm personally not a huge fan of this, since I can't see the (as in: my) benefit of this. I don't have an azure account yet (this is where the benefit for MS is I guess ;) ). I would love to just register my selfhosted environment without any hassles. Maybe this would even bring more people to register their selfhosted environment, which could bring more people to buy a hosted environment. Could potentially even benefit MS to lower the initial hurdle for new users.
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