<story><title>Visual Studio online available for public preview</title><url>https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-online/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lostintangent</author><text>Hey All! I’m a PM on the Visual Studio Online team (as well as Live Share and IntelliCode), and we’re extremely excited to have more developers try out the product. Our goal is to dramatically reduce the cost of setup&amp;#x2F;onboarding, enable better team&amp;#x2F;classroom collaboration, and further support remote development. We believe that having on-demand, cloud-powered dev environments, that are accessible from VS Code and the web, provides a huge step towards achieving that.&lt;p&gt;Let us know if you have any questions&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;feedback, since we’re very keen to begin working with the broader developer community, and learning how we can continue to improve. Otherwise, check out the service (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aka.ms&amp;#x2F;vso&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aka.ms&amp;#x2F;vso&lt;/a&gt;), and then let us know what you think (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;GitHub.com&amp;#x2F;microsoftdocs&amp;#x2F;vsonline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;GitHub.com&amp;#x2F;microsoftdocs&amp;#x2F;vsonline&lt;/a&gt;).</text></comment>
<story><title>Visual Studio online available for public preview</title><url>https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-online/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexeyBrin</author><text>It would be great if there would be a free tier for people that want to learn C++ with VS. Something that lets you use VS online for small C++ programs (similar with Compiler Explorer but with support for running the generated binary) to build and run these small programs.</text></comment>