Open source and inner source are making collaboration more important than ever.

More and more teams are distributed remotely, or leveraging freelancers, which magnify the pain of onboarding new team members without the benefit of a local IT presence.We’ve also noted resounding feedback that the confluence of current trends demands a new breed of development tools and capabilities. We talk to developers every day, and we’ve heard that expectations for innovation continue to increase across all industries and sectors. Software developers, and the software development process, live on the bleeding edge of technological trends. You can work with environments from anywhere using either Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio IDE ( in private preview), or the included browser-based editor. Available beginning at Microsoft’s Ignite conference as a public preview, Visual Studio Online provides managed, on-demand development environments that can be used for long-term projects, to quickly prototype a new feature, or for short-term tasks like reviewing pull requests.

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