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Re: Visual Studio Live Share

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Post by sydd »

lostintangent wrote: post #5

PM 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, wit…

Question: What data will be sent to the Microsoft servers? Lots of companies have very strict policies, most of them dont want their source code in any way at third parties.

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

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Post by lostintangent »

JosephHatfield wrote: post #65
lostintangent wrote: post #5

PM 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, wit…

This seems super helpful when swarming compared to squeezing everyone on the team into one office. Will collaborators all be required to be running admin level accounts? That might be a problem in shops (mine!) where admin access is rarely granted to devs.

Awesome! Thanks for this feedback. Swarming is definitely a scenario we'd love to see Live Share help improve. And no, collaborators wouldn't need to be running admin level in order to participate in a sharing session. We want to make sure collaboration is as accessible/frictionless as possible for everyone :)

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

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Post by frizkie »

sydd wrote: post #81
lostintangent wrote: post #5

PM 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, wit…

Question: What data will be sent to the Microsoft servers? Lots of companies have very strict policies, most of them dont want their source code in any way at third parties.

I read a comment by another PM on Reddit who said that everything is fully encrypted, but is sent to a remote server to negotiate the connection with the other user. They also said that they don't collect any private information/code.

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

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Post by colek42 »

lostintangent wrote: post #5

PM 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, wit…

Wow, this is awesome. While the use case outlined here is great I could probably use this as a remote editor. That is, I can have my dev environment running in the 'cloud' and still expect responsiveness from my editor!

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

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Post by ajcodez »

andr wrote: post #23

Please, please make a headless mode for this! My ideal use case would be to run this on a development VM and be able to connect to it with my VS Code and debug live on the VM. This would be a much better experience than rsync-ing your changes on every run.

TextMate + RMate works great for editing files on a remote linux box. https://github.com/textmate/rmate

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

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Post by lostintangent »

colek42 wrote: post #85
lostintangent wrote: post #5

PM 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, wit…

Wow, this is awesome. While the use case outlined here is great I could probably use this as a remote editor. That is, I can have my dev environment running in the 'cloud' and still expect responsiveness from my editor!

Remote development is definitely an adjacent use case that we believe could be really compelling. Thanks so much for providing the +1 on the scenario, and stay tuned (i.e. sign up :)) for future updates!

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

#88

Post by mevile »

peterkelly wrote: post #64

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the development teams behind the top two open source editors introduce support for collaborative editing on the dame day, apparently unaware that they were both working on the same thing, and there being no evidence of collaboration between the two?

since when is atom a top open source editor? by what metric? notability on HN?

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

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Post by jhasse »

andr wrote: post #23

Please, please make a headless mode for this! My ideal use case would be to run this on a development VM and be able to connect to it with my VS Code and debug live on the VM. This would be a much better experience than rsync-ing your changes on every run.

You could use Xvfb even if it doesn't support headless mode :)

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

#90

Post by debaserab2 »

frik wrote: post #70
abdelhai wrote: post #31

Atom announced "Teletype" today: https://blog.atom.io/2017/11/15/code-together-in-real-time-w...

While Atom's Teletype works today. VSC Live Share is still unreleased "vamporware" (a term coined by MSFT). The ripping of Atom, rebranding it as VSC and doing a press release for such vital new feature is I guess pure coincidence, and not a typical tactic they are known for, right? Edit: > That's just patently false. Curious, how can it be patently false when "Visual Studio Code is based on technology from Github’s…

> Curious, how can it be patently false when "Visual Studio Code is based on technology from Github’s Atom editor".

That would be electron. Electron was originally made for Atom and is now being used as a framework for many other desktop apps. All the guts and internals of VSCode are completely different than Atom's.

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