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> the Visual Studio Online team...VS Code...

So this is NOT Visual Studio but rather VSCode? Do you have insight into why Microsoft keeps making misleading product names? Would it be so horrible to name it VSCode Online instead of Visual Studio Online?

> Let us know if you have any questions

The website says "Use the programming languages and frameworks of your choice". Will that include building and debugging C++ Win32 MFC applications?

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This is from the company that came up with .NET to describe an intermediate bytecode and runtime.

Then later made a new thing called .NET Core which was the same as .NET Framework but more multi platform. Which was confusing so they came up with .NET Standard which was an interface describing compatibility between the other two .NETs

They have their top people working on the .NET jit and compiler, and the VS Code editor. None left for naming conventions.

And that is all before you get to the frameworks. The latest "ASP" framework is called "ASP.NET Core" which succeeded "ASP.NET 4" and confusingly is available for both ".NET Framework" and ".NET Core".

The cherry on top is what they plan on calling the next major release. You guessed it! .NET 6.

.NET 5, actually.

My favorite is their cloud platform, Azure, named after the color of a clear blue sky.

Haha this is funny.

Personally, I low how they used the name C# for two completely different languages (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2009/10/05/my-history...).

Admittedly, most will never have heard of the older one.

Also, C# can be read as C++++.

    C ++
      ++

Not to be confused with their upcoming Kinect Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kinect-dk/

While we released the public preview of the VS Code and web based clients, we also released a private preview of the VS client, which is actually fully optimized to support C#/C++ development. If you’re interested in giving it a try, sign up and we’ll get in touch with you soon!

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-on...

>So this is NOT Visual Studio but rather VSCode?

Well I just tried it and it's aimed at the feel of VSCode.

>Microsoft keeps making misleading product names

What's with the hostility?

> What's with the hostility?

Trying to work in this world, and keep up with what I'm supposed to be using for the platform and application in question. As programmers, we expect some level of complexity, but when Microsoft's lead tech evangelist feels the need to make multiple posts to explain the situation with the product lines, it might have gotten a little out of hand.

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