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

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at how you connect to Live Share. Now the first time you do this, you're going to have to sign in. So I'm going to click on this Live Share button that will be on your status bar, and from here you're going to need to use one of these sign in methods. I'm going to use GitHub, I'm more of a hubber. When I click on that, I'm going to get a window like this that will allow GitHub to authorize this Live Share session. So I'm going to click on this button, and it's going to give me this window right here. You want to click on Open Visual Studio Code, and then you want to click right here on Open, and this has copied an invitation link onto your clipboard which anyone can paste into their browser or you can send it through Teams, chat, or whatever you want. Also when you click on this icon right here again, you should see your name in there and also different options where you can copy that…

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