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

	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.
	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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