Visual Studio Code is one of the most active project on Github for Microsoft developers community. VS Code spread around the developer world like black powder and brings for a lots of different skilled professionals and amateurs a best of bread code editor.
Event if the project brings a lot of new feature on a monthly based release, something there is a new feature that provide far more power to developers, and Live Share one of them.
Live Share was released back in 2018 ( https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/05/07/live-share-public-preview) to provide universal and secure collaboration between developers even working on different operating system at the same time, only one thing care : your code and whatever it is C#, Angular app, Go, etc !
Live Share is now available on Windows, Mac and Linux !!!!
The addin provided on Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code can only share terminals between developers to make them able to debug live ! Isnt’t it awesome ?!?
You can show the introduction video from Jon Chu :
In short, how does it work ?
The process is quite simple : 1. Install 2. Get a Microsoft account (if you don’t laready have one) 3. Create and join a session 4. Code with your buddy 🙂
1. Click on the ‘Live Share’ button in the left panel :
2. Click on ‘Start collaboration session’ in the Live Share panel :
3. Click on the ‘Share Now’ button
4. VS Code will ask you to connect to your Github or Microsoft account y opening a web window
5. Live Share will provide you a link for the collaboration session, copy it and send it to your friend / colleague by email or Teams.
6. Wait for your friend to join the session and … code, debug, execute ! Whan a guest join a session, you’ll be notified and start seeing different colored dot associated with file modified in live.
When you are doing conferences and presentations to other people, you need a great tool to capture your screens and voice. I tried a lot of softwares, most of them are free and/or open source but no one give me exactly what I was looking for : a light footprint when operating screen capture (it’s a mess when your system slow down just cause you are screencasting), powerful in terms of features and options to capture your work, with a real editor and bug free (not crashing during working and wasting your time) ! I’ don’t have a big expectation but a lots of softwares just deceive me, that’s why I wasn’t able to share my presentations from the last Docker meetup.
Being an MVP is a cool thing : you can share with a lot of people, sharing your tools and knowledges. During a conversation with a buddy of mine, he recommends me the ONE tool you need for your next presentations ! From years now, Techsmith is providing Camtasia to professionals and I decided to try it ! I can just truely recommend you to give it a try here : https://www.techsmith.com/ and share your next presentations.
