Editing C #, PHP, Node.js code directly in the browser with Visual Studio Online “Monaco” and Windows Azure Web Sites

Developing websites? With Windows Azure Web Sites and Visual Studio Online, you can do this anytime, anywhere.

Visual Studio provides some interesting features for website creators. You can already publish websites to the cloud directly from Visual Studio, as well as deploy and debug them remotely.

With the release of Visual Studio 2013, there is another exciting new feature available to all Windows Azure subscribers .

New code editor right in your browser!

This is what many CMS systems have been striving for over the years, creating their own engines and editors.

Let's see how it works.

You can create your website in Windows Azureon one of your favorite technologies ASP.NET MVC, Node JS, PHP, or use ready-made engines and frameworks such as Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, Django and many others.



The process of creating a site in Windows Azure takes no more than 5 minutes.



After the site is created, in the Configuration settings, we configure an account to access the site files. It will be used for FTP, editing code using Visual Studio Online in a browser, and deploying solutions from Visual Studio.



Then, enable the use of Visual Studio Online to edit the code.



Go back to the Dashboard tab . To the right of the menu, we have the opportunity to edit the code in the browser using Visual Studio Online.



By clicking on the link, you will be taken to Visula Studio Online and you will be able to create and edit your code directly in your browser. All this with IntelliSense support, autosave, the ability to compile and run.





You can also collaborate by setting up GIT or TFS for your project.

Visual Studio Online is available to all Windows Azure users and allows you to be dynamic, work anywhere, anytime and from any device, and be available to your site online 24/7 :)