Microsoft's web-based version of its Code Editor, Visual Studio Online, which was previously in a private testing with select developers, has now been opened to the public.
The new online editor, Visual Studio Online, will enable developers to quickly configure a development environment for their repositories and also work on their code. It provides a cloud-powered development environments, capable of handling long-term project, or even a short-term task, on a browser-based editor that's accessible anywhere.
Visual Studio Online, among other things will bring the benefits of DevOps, such as reliability and scalability, which typically worked for production workloads, to the development environments.
It not only allow development environments customization per project, but also layers on individual personalization to make the Cloud-hosted environments feel more natural to use. The Online editor also allow developers to leverage all the tools, processes and configurations that they've already come to love and rely on the best of both worlds.
Besides the cloud-hosted environments, Visual Studio Online allows you to register and connect own self-hosted environments, or an environment you've already perfectly tuned and recorded some of the benefits of Visual Studio Online, all for free.
And every Visual Studio Online environment has been carefully crafted with the needs of specific project or task, which can either be accomplished automatically with smart-configuration features, or you can finely tune environments using JSON and Dockerfile configuration overrides.
These dynamic environments are also quick to create, reproducible and reliable - enabling easy onboarding for team members to your project, and you can get started on new projects that otherwise would be cumbersome to try out before now.
Additionally, the reproducible development environments practically eliminates the so-called Works on my machine issue.
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