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Visual Studio Live Share Enabling developers to achieve greater confidence at speed by streamlining collaboration in real-time during development. Learn more! |
Many Visual Studio Live Features are available across a number of languages and platforms. See here to find out what we currently support and note more will be coming in the future.
Tip: Did you know you can join your own collaboration session? This allows you to try Live Share on your own or to spin up an instance of VS or VS Code and connect to it remotely! You can even use the same identity on both instances. Check it out!
- Table Of Contents
- Quickstarts
- How-tos
- Reference
- Resources
- Community-created content
- Download and install Visual Studio Live Share
- Contributing & Feedback
- License
- Connectivity requirements
- Security features
- Linux install details
- Language and platform support
- Extension support
- Common Use Cases
- Troubleshooting
- Remote pair programming with VS Live Share
- Getting Started with Live Coding in Visual Studio Code w/Live Share
- Visual Studio Code: VS Live Share from Across the World
- Visual Studio Live Share - Two Developers Coding at Once
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Visual Studio Code (1.22.0+) 1. Install Visual Studio Code for Windows (7, 8.1, or 10), macOS (Sierra+), or 64-bit Linux (details) 2. Download and install the VS Live Share extension from the marketplace. 3. Reload and wait for dependencies to download and install (see status bar). 4. Linux: If prompted to install libraries, click install, enter password, restart VS Code when done. 
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Visual Studio 2017 15.6 or higher 1. Install the latest version of VS 2017 (15.6+) on Windows (7, 8.1, or 10). 2. Install a supported workload. (e.g. ASP.NET, .NET Core, C++, and/or Node.js) 3. Download and install the VS Live Share extension from the marketplace. |
By downloading and using Visual Studio Live Share, you agree to the license terms and privacy statement. See troubleshooting if you run into problems.
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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.
By downloading and using Visual Studio Live Share, you agree to the product license terms and privacy statement.
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License for documentation code samples:
The MIT License (MIT)
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