VS Code Live Share
Installation and Walk Through of VS Code Live Share Extension
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Installation and Walk Through of VS Code Live Share Extension
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The Live Share extension allows for real time collaboration sessions where we can read and edit code in other people's VS Code projects.
Open VS Code and click on the Extensions tab on the left. Then search Live Share in the search bar at the top of the Extensions tab.
Select Live Share from the search results and click install. If the install is successful, you should have a new Live Share icon on the left tab of VS Code.
Select the Live Share extension icon on the left side tab, and select "Start collaboration session..." in the top left. At this point the extension may prompt you to login in to your Microsoft or Github account.
The extension will automatically copy a URL to your clipboard, simply paste your collaboration session URL into your Ring Central chat.
Lastly, under "Session Details" in the top left, select the icon at the end of "Shared Terminals" to create a "Read/write" terminal.
The Read/write terminal will allow anyone who is collaborating to type in your terminal, as well as automatically creating a shared server if either of you serve the project. This will allow your collaboration partners to view the project in their browser.
To join a session, click on the URL link sent to you which will open a new tab in your browser. Select "Open Live Share for VS Code" which will open a new VS Code window with the shared project.
If the window alert does not appear for some reason, scroll a little way down on that browser page and join by selecting Visual Studio Code.
