It’s easy to collaborate with others since Live Share is built-in for co-authoring, editing, and debugging.The ability to easily switch between Visual Studio Code, the browser-based editor, or the Visual Studio IDE ( in private preview) gives them the flexibility to work from just about any device.The performance of their cloud dev environment in many ways feels better than their local environment.The time it takes to onboard to new projects (or new tasks within an existing project) is much shorter.In particular, our users are finding that: One of the most consistent things we’ve heard is that the ability to create cloud-hosted dev environments is having a positive impact in more ways than we had thought. Over the last few months we’ve had a blast learning from our users and finding ways to improve. In November I had the privilege to announce the public preview of Visual Studio Online to the world. Tl dr – new name, lower prices, added features! Today, I’m excited to share more news, this time related to Visual Studio Online, that will help you be productive from wherever you’re working. First, we made remote collaboration easier by enabling users to join Live Share sessions from their browser.

Our own team has been facing some of the challenges that are part of this transition, and it has motivated us to double down on our priority to help developers stay productive from anywhere. As we’ve all been adopting practices like social distancing and remote working, development teams have become more distributed.

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