Visual Studio Live Share
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Visual Studio Live Share
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#2Cool sounding feature, but in practice remote code sharing and working on the same code is to extreme programming as 'phone sex' is to sex. :)
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#3Screen sharing is such a drag using Skype. Everything goes slow as poop even on the fastest of MacBooks. Yet for a lot of purposes doing a screen share is super valuable. I imagine Live Share is much leaner much alike watching somebody changing a Google Doc in front of your nose.
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#4Screen sharing is such a drag using Skype. Everything goes slow as poop even on the fastest of MacBooks. Yet for a lot of purposes doing a screen share is super valuable. I imagine Live Share is much leaner much alike watching somebody changing a Google Doc in front of your nose.
Personally I'd find it irritating, as I do with Google Docs.
This is a neat gimmick but I don't think it'll revolutionise anything or end up being the status quo in the future.
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#5PM on the Visual Studio Live Share team here. Thanks for posting! We're really excited to hear folks thoughts about this experience, how it can help improve their existing team collaboration workflows, and how we can continue to improve/learn. So please sign up and/or let us know what you think :)
We've heard pretty loud and clear that developers want better collaboration tools, without needing to switch editors, without needing to continuously negotiate control (i.e. look at the exact same thing), and without sacrificing the context/fidelity they would normally get while developing locally (e.g. full auto-completion/navigation, debugging). We think Visual Studio Live Share helps teams get there, and as it evolves, can hopefully become a powerful tool for teams to collaborate, not only more efficiently, but more naturally.
Additionally, we’ve found that successful collaboration needs to include more than just the project’s source files, and real-time edits, which is why we’re excited to also support collaborative debugging (even between Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code!). We’re only just getting started, and look forward to great developer feedback from the community.
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#6Pretty cool, but I wonder what the implications are for code privacy given that this runs through Microsoft's servers. Will they also be collecting data on the code being shared? Especially given the Kite debacle, think it's important to be clear up front.
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#7Pretty cool, but I wonder what the implications are for code privacy given that this runs through Microsoft's servers. Will they also be collecting data on the code being shared? Especially given the Kite debacle, think it's important to be clear up front.
Hey there! Another PM on Visual Studio Live Share here. Security is absolutely something we are designing for. Microsoft will not be collecting data on the code. The code is not stored or uploaded in the cloud in any way. Rather, it is just a connection that is established between you and the teammate you are sharing with.
There's more details in the FAQ here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/live-share-faq
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#8Screen sharing is such a drag using Skype. Everything goes slow as poop even on the fastest of MacBooks. Yet for a lot of purposes doing a screen share is super valuable. I imagine Live Share is much leaner much alike watching somebody changing a Google Doc in front of your nose.
PM at Microsoft here. Live Share not only allows you to collaborate in real time in a lower latency snappier environment but also enables you to seamlessly transition from watching to participating, editing, stepping, and inspecting. The difference is you can collaborate but still operate independently which is not possible with something like a screen share. Screen sharing is great when you want to show your entire desktop or show visuals. Live Share lets you add another tool into your tool chest to better enable concurrent collaboration.
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#9This really shows how seriously they are taking VSC. Very cool.
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#10This is pretty exciting. I've seen a number of failed attempts years ago to do this sort of thing with the Eclipse IDE. As someone who does a lot of pair programming (XP), this looks like a compelling way to support occasional remote work for XP developers. I could easily see a team with a good cadence & feature set to work on opting for "remote Fridays", "remote Wednesdays" or the like with tooling like this. Looking forward to trying it out!