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Setup complete development environment
Team, we would like to setup complete environment to develop a very business critical applcaition. Since ours is a stratup, we would like to keep the coding all in Azure for security. Now the pro...
Well, once you're using Azure deployment, it's not an issue (or not quite). There is a way you can edit your project online (instead of using VM's), which is IDE online (project codename "Monaco"). You can learn all about it here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-Online-Monaco
To use this IDE within existing deployment, just go to the existing ApplicationService instance, in the "Properties" blade find "Develeopment tools" and choose "App service editor".
For some people it may seem inconvenient but as for me it provides really good code editing experience (including basic intelli-sense). It may require different level of skills (incomparable to VS IDE) but the environment would be easy to share between developenrs though.