CoVisualStudio : converting MS Visual Studio into a real-time collaborative programming development environment

Abstract

This is the age of mobile devices. Smartphones and tablet devices have dominate the market. They give rise to a new market of mobile applications and games. It is also allows small time programmers to publish and sell their mobile applications and games easily.

The difficulty to publish mobile applications and games are lower, but current Integrated Development Environment (IDE) like Microsoft Visual Studio do not yet provide enough tools for programmers to work together on developing the same application or game.

There are tools in the market like Subversion SVN, which allows collaboration between programmers by maintaining multiple versions of development files to be used by all programmers involved. But this is not a real-time process, it will only take place on demand by the programmer to update or upload latest copies.

The purpose of this project is to find out if Microsoft Visual Studio can be converted into a real time collaboration tool for programmers. Microsoft Visual Studio is used for developing applications and games for Windows, Windows Phone and Windows RT. Programmers will be able to collaborate, work on the same project concurrently and will get the latest codes appearing real time without doing manual updating Subversion SVN.