Anyone experience with Visual Studio Online?

Ian Shlasko

Ask yourself... Do you trust your code to the cloud? I don't... I'll stick with CE at home.

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Deflinek

Visual Studio Online[^] is the repository not an IDE. You can use it WITH VS2013 CE but not INSTEAD.

-- "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

Sander Rossel

It's just some hobby stuff, so privacy isn't really an issue. I wouldn't use it for any production work.

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Sander Rossel

Oooooooohhhhhh... That's not what I understood from that exact same website, but perhaps I was biased into believing it was! :)

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Deflinek

Yep, very confusing name for otherwise good product :)

-- "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

Sander Rossel

That they placed it right next to the VS2013 CE download, same size on screen, like they were alternatives, didn't help either :)

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Ian Shlasko

Don't feel bad... I thought it was an online IDE too... I just wasn't about to try it :)

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FIorian Schneidereit

Yes, that's what makes people mistakenly believe Visual Studio Online was some kind of "cloud IDE" that can be used as a stripped-down, simplified replacement for a local Visual Studio installation, like the free Office Online apps, but it's not.

Marc Clifton

Hobby code or other, I would never put my code in the cloud trusting that the servers will be running when I want to work on my project. Besides, there's lots of times I'm in a disconnected state (some may say a dissociated state) so having all my stuff without needing Internet access is a requirement. Marc

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Mycroft Holmes

Marc Clifton wrote:

so having all my stuff without needing Internet access is a requirement

Yeah but finding code to cut and paste is a bitch. :laugh:

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BC3Tech

Deflinek wrote:

Visual Studio Online[^] is the repository not an IDE. You can use it WITH VS2013 CE but not INSTEAD.

^^ this. If/when you get to the point where you really want to use it for builds, etc, I have done quite a bit of configuration & experimentation in this regard and try to post those findings and other interesting things on my blog, .Netitude[^]

Ravi Bhavnani

Sander Rossel wrote:

I wanted to download VS2013 Community Edition, but then I noticed an alternative: VS Online.

It's not an alternative. It's what they used to call TFS Online. And IMHO, rocks hugely. (All my personal source code is stored there.) /ravi

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Ravi Bhavnani

Marc Clifton wrote:

so having all my stuff without needing Internet access is a requirement.

Marc, you can work disconnected. It syncs on demand when you reconnect. I love VSO! (Been using it since before they changed the name.) /ravi

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Marc Clifton

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

It syncs on demand when you reconnect.

Ah, I didn't know that. Ignorant me! :-O Marc

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Joel Palmer 0

I love having my code in the cloud. I have 4 computers that I use the same code from and it syncs automatically between them. A lot of times, those computers are on networks that are completely unrelated by location or by domain. So, I can check my code in from an implementation site on my laptop and pull it down on my dev Desktop back at work. I develop in a 1 man shop (me) so any TFS implementation had to be maintained by me. That's waaay to much overhead for just little, old me. If you want to talk security... blah, I get paid for getting the job done. If someone thinks my code is so interesting that they go through the pain of hacking MS for it... then, they'll be sadly disappointed. Also, each of my dev computers have a copy of the code so if they delete the Web at some point (or it gets hacked and untrusted) I still have my own backups. Good Luck; You'll need it

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Chris Jacobi

When I develop software I want the process to be repeatable. E.G. I want to be able to use a fresh machine, re-install the tools and rebuild my software from source code. With cloud tools I do not have any control over whether or not I can re-create a particular version of my code. You may ask why don't I use the cloud for quick experiments or hobby? The answer may be unsatisfying, but I simply don't like to develop and learn complete new processes for quick experiments when I am in a deep rut of doing it professionally without big hurdles and everything is ready.

Sander Rossel

Joel Palmer wrote:

If someone thinks my code is so interesting that they go through the pain of hacking MS for it... then, they'll be sadly disappointed.

:laugh: :thumbsup: You make some good points :)

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public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}