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thanks for reminding me about team services. I've been looking for low cost CI solutions for .net core. I'm going to give it a try.

LyalinDotCom 9y ago
glad to help. I always hate to "Advertise" but really VSTS is a great product, very open source and cross-platform focused and extremely great pricing model (considering the massive free tier). So few folks know about it, they hear "Visual Studio" in the name and think its just for Microsoft stack, but its 100% not. We're here for all developers, at least that is our mission.
- polskibus 9y ago
  How are Git repositories hosted by Microsoft protected from Microsoft employees peeking at other companies code? Is there some sort of protection in case of breach or if Microsoft launches a competitor to a service whose source code is in VSTS?
  - toomanybeersies 9y ago
    Couldn't you ask that question of literally any company hosting source. Or really, any cloud storage company at all?
    - thanksgiving 9y ago
      This is where you talk about track record. Previous story somewhat tangentially related because Microsoft. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/microsoft_on_the_issues/2014/03/28/were-listening-additional-steps-to-protect-your-privacy/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/microsoft_on_the_issues/... > Although our terms of service, like those of others in our industry, allowed us to access lawfully the account in this case, the circumstances raised legitimate questions about the privacy interests of our customers. > While our own search was clearly within our legal rights, I love C# and I love visual studio but I think vsts needs to at least meet gitlab with a free and open source community edition for me to consider it again. Hey, stop laughing. Stranger things have happened...
    - polskibus 9y ago
      Not really, for example GitHub features mostly relate to bug tracking, etc, whereas MS offering is much broader - they just announced an invoicing product which could kill most invoicing-related SaaS apps out there.
  - LyalinDotCom 9y ago
    That is a good question to ask, certainly any time you put data into the cloud, you are trusting a 3rd party. In this case, we here at Microsoft take security and data privacy very very seriously. Actually we even published a whitepaper on this topic, see: Visual Studio Team Services Data Protection Overview https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/articles/team-services-security-whitepaper https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/articles/team-services-se... I hope that helps.

LyalinDotCom 9y ago

glad to help. I always hate to "Advertise" but really VSTS is a great product, very open source and cross-platform focused and extremely great pricing model (considering the massive free tier). So few folks know about it, they hear "Visual Studio" in the name and think its just for Microsoft stack, but its 100% not. We're here for all developers, at least that is our mission.

polskibus 9y ago
How are Git repositories hosted by Microsoft protected from Microsoft employees peeking at other companies code? Is there some sort of protection in case of breach or if Microsoft launches a competitor to a service whose source code is in VSTS?
- toomanybeersies 9y ago
  Couldn't you ask that question of literally any company hosting source. Or really, any cloud storage company at all?
  - thanksgiving 9y ago
    This is where you talk about track record. Previous story somewhat tangentially related because Microsoft. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/microsoft_on_the_issues/2014/03/28/were-listening-additional-steps-to-protect-your-privacy/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/microsoft_on_the_issues/... > Although our terms of service, like those of others in our industry, allowed us to access lawfully the account in this case, the circumstances raised legitimate questions about the privacy interests of our customers. > While our own search was clearly within our legal rights, I love C# and I love visual studio but I think vsts needs to at least meet gitlab with a free and open source community edition for me to consider it again. Hey, stop laughing. Stranger things have happened...
  - polskibus 9y ago
    Not really, for example GitHub features mostly relate to bug tracking, etc, whereas MS offering is much broader - they just announced an invoicing product which could kill most invoicing-related SaaS apps out there.
- LyalinDotCom 9y ago
  That is a good question to ask, certainly any time you put data into the cloud, you are trusting a 3rd party. In this case, we here at Microsoft take security and data privacy very very seriously. Actually we even published a whitepaper on this topic, see: Visual Studio Team Services Data Protection Overview https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/articles/team-services-security-whitepaper https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/articles/team-services-se... I hope that helps.