From the course: Remote Collaboration for Developers with Microsoft Live Share

Add Live Share to Visual Studio - Visual Studio Tutorial

From the course: Remote Collaboration for Developers with Microsoft Live Share

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Add Live Share to Visual Studio

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- [Instructor] Let's ensure that Live Share is installed and working on our copies of our code editor. I usually work in Visual Studio so that's what I'm using for this course. My colleague Ravey Elobos will be working in Visual Studio Code. The only two additions of Visual Studio that support Live Share are 2017 which I have open here on the left side of the screen, and 2019 which is open on the right side of the screen. If you have 2019 you don't need to do anything special. It's already installed. You can see it here on the toolbar with a Live Share button. Visual Studio 2017 does not come with it installed, but it's easy to add. You go to the Tools menu, then go to Extensions and Updates. Go to the Online section and then search for live. It's this first link here. Now I've already installed it, but it's disabled on my copy of Visual Studio. If you don't have it installed, there will be a download button here. You'll click on that, restart Visual Studio, go through a number of prompts that ask you for permissions to install the Live Share pieces. And then after about two or three minutes you'll be able to restart Visual Studio. So I've already got it installed, but it's disabled. So for me I will go into Tools, Extensions and Updates. Go back in there. I guess I shouldn't have closed that. And then go to all. Go to live share. Here it is, you see it's disabled, so I'll enabled it. Close this, restart Visual Studio. And I see the same button that we saw in 2019 is now available in 2017. The next step is to make sure we're logged into Visual Studio so that ensures that we can successfully collaborate with others.

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