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 !!!!
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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 🙂
Installation
The installation process is fairly simple : go to the Live Share extension homepage => https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/fr/services/live-share/
- Visual Studio : it’s already install by default in Visual Studio 2019 ! For older versions you can
- Visual Studio Code : download the addin on the market place => https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-pack
Create a new session
1. Click on the ‘Live Share’ button in the left panel :
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2. Click on ‘Start collaboration session’ in the Live Share panel :
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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
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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.
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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.
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Microsoft also release a Live Share Audio plugin to enable developers to exchange by voice and Arjun Attam also make a
chat addin for Live Share that provide you with a more deep collaboration level experience.
In a context of remote work collaboration, this addin is an excellent asset for your team ! Try it !