Visual Studio Online
Today marks the beginning of a new era for Visual Studio with the availability of Visual Studio Online.
Visual Studio has evolved over the years. Starting with an integrated developer environment for the desktop, Visual Studio expanded to also include team development capabilities on the server with Team Foundation Server. We are now taking the next step, extending the Visual Studio IDE with a collection of developer services, hosted in Azure, which offers the best integrated end-to-end development experience for modern applications.
Today, we are announcing the availability of a broad range of developer services as part of Visual Studio Online. Several services that have been available in Team Foundation Service are now in public preview as part of Visual Studio Online: hosted source control, work item tracking, collaboration and a build service. The elastic load testing service we released in limited preview earlier this year is also now available in public preview as part of Visual Studio Online. In addition, we are announcing two new Visual Studio Online services: Visual Studio Online Application Insights and Visual Studio Online “Monaco”.
Visual Studio Online is free for teams up to 5 users. The combination of Visual Studio Express and the free plan for Visual Studio Online make it simple for developers to get started in a friction-free way. Visual Studio Online is also included as part of MSDN subscriptions. New Visual Studio Online subscription plans, including access to the Visual Studio Professional IDE, are also available starting today. You can check out the plans, and get started with VS Online at http://visualstudio.com/ .
