Visual Studio Live Share | Visual Studio2025-02-28T12:30:56-08:00

Visual Studio Live Share

Real-time collaborative development

Included with Visual Studio 2022

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Visual Studio Live Share

Share your code, collaborate on anything, anywhere, anytime

It doesn’t matter what type of app you are building, what language you program in, or what OS you’re on; with Live Share you can instantly share your project with your peers from the comfort of your own tools. No need to clone a repo or set up the environment, to get sharing.

Collaboration shouldn’t be hard, so keep your existing workflow

Live Share provides you with the ability to co-edit, co-debug, chat with your peers, share terminals, servers, look at comments and so much more. You don’t need to change how you work to work with others. Live Share works for all your needs and your team’s.

Animated gif of 2 people collaborating, and the guest in viewing the shared source control diffs in the code.

Use real-time collaboration for pairing, code reviews, technical interviews, bootcamps and more

With Live Share, versatility is the name of the game. Gone are the days of using multiple tools for collaboration and context switching. Live Share not only works for multiple use-cases, but also has an extensibility model that allows you to add your own customization to it.

Visual Studio Live Share in action

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Collaboration across your entire development workflow

Documentation

Live editing

Author and edit code together in real time

Focus and Follow

Bring attention to your cursor or follow along as others navigate

Text chat

Communicate with others over text chat during your session

Group debugging

Set breakpoints and step through code together

Shared servers

View web apps and databases without exposing ports to the Internet

Shared terminals

Run commands and tasks, with output streamed to team members

Here’s what people are saying about#VSLiveShare

Thought I’d just share some VS Code love: I’m loving the Live Share extension, which has been extremely helpful in pairing and getting help from colleagues, whether in the office or remote. Mucho appreciation ????#HappyCoding via@code

Just used a@code Live Share to do a code review with four students around a table. It worked brilliantly. Living in the future is pretty awesome.

Today, I was blown away by the power of@code + VS Live Share for remote pair-programming. Not only can you share your workspace but you can share your terminal AND your servers running locally. Game. Changer.

So I *finally* got to play with Live Share in@code. “Fan-freakin-tastic” doesn’t even begin to describe how cool it is.

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