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Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Browser-Based Code Editor

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Re: Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Browser-Based Code Editor

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Post by presidentender »

gerry_shaw wrote: post #27
twiceaday wrote: post #24

I would also like to comment on this topic while pimping my company.

You're doing it wrong.

He (twiceaday YC14) is following these comments closely. He's using his literacy to enable real-time text-concept-memory translations, with the ability to verbally communicate the contents later, or simply re-type them if the ideas are relevant to later comment threads.

Re: Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Browser-Based Code Editor

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Post by taude »

swalsh wrote: post #29

Speculation here: I wonder if Microsoft sees the fleeting profitability in owning the desktop environment (more competition, shrinking market, higher expectations). So they're trying to apply the same concepts that really helped propel windows as a popular platform (easy to develop for) to their cloud platform (azure) in an attempt to coax their existing user base to start adopting it over other cloud platforms (like…

I worked at a couple big enterprise companies where all our installs of Visual Studio and dev tools were hosted on a separate secure network that we had to RDP into to do development. (Company had famous theft of source code).

I wonder if there's something to be said for getting web-based dev environments working well enough in a private cloud setting....I could see that as a future. And then the bonus of not even caring which device you access it from.

Re: Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Browser-Based Code Editor

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Post by anotherbadlogin »

bdavisx wrote: post #41

Without ReSharper, I find Visual Studio code editing to be a very unpleasant experience. I'm guessing the online editing will be even worse.

Especially if they didn't fix any of these ridiculous defects: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/05/visual-studio-is-it-g...

Re: Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Browser-Based Code Editor

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Post by Avalaxy »

YeahKIA wrote: post #11

Very convenient for hacking on the go when you are usually ng something like surface or iPad.

Ah, that's actually a great idea. Going to try it on my Surface RT :) It would be awesome if I could do some simple hacking on my tablet for those occasions I have to wait or when I'm in an airplane or something :)

Re: Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Browser-Based Code Editor

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Post by phillips1012 »

YeahKIA wrote: post #11

Very convenient for hacking on the go when you are usually ng something like surface or iPad.

IMO you can't really "hack" with the .net family of programming languages.

(hack as in tweak/mess around with your computer)

Re: Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Browser-Based Code Editor

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Post by kevingadd »

nkg wrote: post #48

Forgive me for asking that $0.02 question : Can I create Xbox One apps with Visual studio ?

Traditionally the console SDKs are 'Visual Studio plus proprietary magic', so you'll need to get registered as a developer either way. But you'll almost certainly be using Visual Studio.

Re: Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Browser-Based Code Editor

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Post by at-fates-hands »

lmkg wrote: post #30
swalsh wrote: post #29

Speculation here: I wonder if Microsoft sees the fleeting profitability in owning the desktop environment (more competition, shrinking market, higher expectations). So they're trying to apply the same concepts that really helped propel windows as a popular platform (easy to develop for) to their cloud platform (azure) in an attempt to coax their existing user base to start adopting it over other cloud platforms (like…

I don't think Microsoft yet sees the demise of desktop as a given, but they are hedging their bets against it. Web, mobile, cloud, &c. are all platforms that are threatening desktop. Microsoft is trying to push into them, not to abandon desktop, but to make sure that they have a foothold regardless of which platform(s) end up dominant in the future. As late entrants into most of these platforms, their strategy is to…

I'm wondering if a lot of moving their products to the cloud is to limit or try to stop pirating of their software. Adobe has been successful thus far with their new Creative Cloud platform.
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