Code running in Cloud

Code run is an amazing cloud based services provider for programmers and developers. I have recently tried out code run Studio aka IDE by which we can develop websites with browser based IDE’s.

To much amusement, the IDE pretty much has a style of Visual Studio, with rich intellisense and with debugging options. My attempt is to take you to a simple walkthrough to ASP.NET development in CODE RUN.

To create a project, got to NEW>Project

It will pop up, a new Javascript modal, as shown below. Believe this what a web dev want, especially those who are learning web languages, or want to try something without installing and configuring the paths etc. etc.. Cloudrun has a great level of abstraction and transparency. The studio provides lots of templates categoriesed into sections such as C-sharp, Javascript and PHP. Well, I havn’t seen a VB.NET option. But there are a bunch templates for Csharp, including silverlight, A facebook template, an ASP.NET MVC application, ASP.NET Website and WebApplication, An ASMX webservice template and WPF browser based application(Though I found xaml extensions, I havn’t XBAP extensions).

In the Javascript section, there is the JQueryUI application, what it creates is a simple example, an html page of JQueryUI features. What the only difference with the sample page provide by the  offical JQueryUI is the theme. So I ask why?

One which I try to exemplify is the ASP.NET dev in the cloud using CODE run. There is a document editor, but there is  no view of it. For those who love to design by code than by drag and drop methods,they will love it. There is a side panel with a tree control with the list of file, which simulate the solution explorer, Right click it and you can add new items. When I clicked the run button, a new browser window popped up which took a bit of time. But sometimes worked bit oddly and showed some invalid exceptions.

In the codebehind file, The intellisense which I found was amazing. Though it  is not that intelligent a visual studio is, there is a great level of brilliance shown by the devs of Coderun in implementing an appealing, stunning, intelliSense featured web based IDE.