The container is your environment - all you need is a machine (any operating system) with VS Code or just a browser (I probably wouldn’t use a browser for full time dev - but to check something, or to access it from anywhere, it’s great). For new starters on your team it is even worse - they do not have experience of doing it before it can be horribly slow to get up and running. When you get a new PC it is a PIA to setup all the tools you need and to setup a dev environment locally. (I have no scientific proof of this - it just feels that way!) New Machine/New Starters Well firstly I can have a Linux dev environment on my Windows machine, without a VM - yes WSL2 is coming, but I still hate turning on any virtualisation tech on my laptop - it just causes problems with connected standby and sleeping in general. I can open in VS Code and even in a browser (which is frankly bonkers). In seconds I can have a development environment which is always consistent. ![]() And to be quite blunt it is seriously impressive. VSOnline allows you to create a development environment in a container hosted in Azure for almost pennies. ![]() Update May 2020: Microsoft have renamed it already - its now CodeSpaces! I quite like that name. Not to be confused with the old Visual Studio Online (VSO) which was renamed VSTS and then renamed to the now Azure DevOps (that’s a rant for another day). ![]() A new product was recently released called Visual Studio Online (VSOnline).
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