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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! |
While the initial focus of Visual Studio Live Share is real-time collaborative development of Node.js and ASP.NET/ASP.NET Core based web applications and services, many features are broadly available and more will be coming in the future. It is currently in a limited, private preview. Sign up!
- Start a collaboration session (after you've been accepted into the preview)
- Join a collaboration session (no need to sign up or be accepted in the preview)
- Getting started and managing collaboration sessions
- Visual Studio enabled features
- Visual Studio Code enabled features
- Summary of language and platform support
- Overview of 3rd-party extension support
- Troubleshooting
- FAQ
- 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 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, and/or Node.js 3. Download and install the Visual Studio Live Share extension from the marketplace. ![]() |
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Visual Studio Code 1. Install Visual Studio Code (1.20.0+) for Windows (7, 8.1, or 10) or macOS (Sierra & up). 2. Download and install the Visual Studio Live Share extension from the marketplace. 3. Reload and wait for dependencies to download and install (see status bar). ![]() |
By downloading and using Visual Studio Live Share, you agree to the license terms and privacy statement. See troubleshooting if you run into problems.
Have a question or feedback? There are many ways to contribute.
- Up-vote a feature or request a new one
- Search existing bugs or report a problem
- Shoot us a mail with suggestions or questions
- Jump on Slack to chat with the team
- Hit us up on Twitter using #vsliveshare!
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.
By downloading and using Visual Studio Live Share, you agree to the license terms and privacy statement.
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