Some additional features announced to be supported by the new Visual Studio Online editor are: This also offers the extensibility of supporting Visual Studio Code extensions, although at this time we don’t know how many or which VS Code extensions will be supported. Based on the popular Visual Studio Code editor, it offers a familiar feel and workspace for writing and working with source code. Microsoft announced the availability of a Private Preview of the new browser-based (or web-based) Visual Studio Online editor. While these approaches will work in most cases, there are times when a lighter weight approach would be great. Visual Studio Code is fairly light weight and cross-platform, or you could setup Visual Studio in an Azure VM to get the full Microsoft developer experience. There are times when locally installed developer tools make sense, but there are also times when a lighter weight (or thin client) approach would work better.

“Developing for the cloud, in the cloud” has been a pretty cool idea for some time now.

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