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Use Focus Participants tool in Visual Studio

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Use Focus Participants tool in Visual Studio

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- [Instructor] Here's a scenario, Terry went to lunch, she's back, but she closed all her tabs before she went to lunch, so she's not synced. If I switch back and forth between my two files, nothing's happening in Visual Studio. What I can do is I can, from within my copy of Visual Studio, I can focus her attention on the current file. Not only her attention, but everybody else who's participating in this Live Share. To do that I go to Live Share, and click on this button, focus participants. Now let's notice on my computer that I get this Live Focus, message, focus request sent. Now this makes sense because normally I can't see the other participant's screens, so this tells me I was successful in sending the request to all the participants. And they should now be synchronized, or following my code. So let's take a look, see if that's true. Terry's in logo renderer.cs, and when I switch to program.cs, her application…

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