I'm going to continue to explore this and see if I can open my blog and podcast sites in this world. I can then head over to and delete it, or I can let it suspend. Now I can do dev on a little cheapo laptop but have a major server to the work in the cloud. When I hit localhost:500x it's forwarded up to the cloud:Īmazing. Same as if I split the work between Windows and WSL locally, in this case VS Code is talking to that 8 gig Linux Environment I made earlier. VS Code is doing some of the work, but the heavy lifting is in the cloud.

Since I'm running currently in VS Online (see the HanselmanTestPlan1 in the lower corner in green) I can just hit F5 and it compiles and runs. You can see my new VS Online Plan, you can see my Docker Containers because I'm running Docker for Windows, you can see my WSL Targets as I've got multiple local Linuxes. You can see my Raspberry PI as an SSH target. I installed the Visual Studio Online extention and clicked on the little Remote Environment thing on the left side after running VS Code. Now to try it in VS Code rather than online in the browser. Now I've hit a breakpoint! That's bonkers. Then I hit the Debug menu to build and compile my app IN THE CLOUD and I get 'connecting to the forwarded port' as its 'localhost' is in the cloud.

NET app I had to run these commands in a new terminal to generate and trust certs for SSL. I've got intellicode, I can install the C# extension. Then opened a new Terminal, ran 'dotnet new web' and I'm basically in a thin VS Code, except in the browser. I changed mine to fall asleep (suspend) in 5 minutes, but the default is 30. I see this page that says I have no 'environments' set up. I'll start with with Browser version, which is the easiest one I'm guessing. VS Online in Visual Studio (in private preview so I don't have that but you can sign up!).I already dig the Visual Studio 'Remote' technology (it's almost impossibly amazing) so moving the local container or WSL to the Cloud makes a lot of sense. Visual Studio Online was announced in preview, so I wanted to try it out.

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