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Discussion on: I'm a Visual Studio PM at Microsoft, working on developer services like Live Share. Ask Me Anything!

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Al Romano • Edited

We use Live Share at work all the time to quickly talk about code together with everyone still at their desks usings Teams. Keeps us in our work flow but still lets us collaborate together.

We use it a lot to showcase work we're doing ourselves to the rest of our team and we also onboard new developers to the team by walking them through the codebase, especially if they're remote or a 3rd party vendor.

Keep up the great work with Live Share, it's super appreciated by us fellow devs!!

As a question, what's your single favorite feature when using Live Share with more than 2 people?

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Jonathan Carter

Myself and two other devs on the team pair every week, and I think my favorite feature is the ability to observe what they’re editing in seperate editors (within a VS Code grid layout), while being able to edit in a seperate file or section of code at the same time. I personally find it incredibly powerful to be able to explore ideas on my own, while simultaneously “checking in” on what my peers are doing.

I also love the audio support and whiteboard extensions, since Live Share always works better with a voice call, and we frequently find the need to diagram something ad-hoc.

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Matt Miller

omg! I didn't realise audio support exists, let alone a useful sounding whiteboard. Yet more reasons to love VSCode.

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Al Romano

Ooh, I use Whiteboard app all the time, didn't think about linking them! I'll have to add that in.

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Alan Cohen

We tried Live Share once on Visual Studio 2017 but it did not work because our solutions are stored in a separate tree from projects (We structured this way because our solutions share projects) - but is not compatible with Live Share. I hope this can be resolved some time.

Example:
src\app1\sln1.sln
src\app2\sln2.sln
src\proj\proj1.csproj
src\proj\proj2.csproj
src\proj\proj3.csproj
src\proj\proj4.csproj

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Jonathan Carter

Hey! This issue has been resolved, so if you install VS2019 (which includes Live Share out-of-the-box) or update the extension, then you should be good to go. Please let me know if you run into any issues!

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Alan Cohen

That's great! I'll try it.