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Use the Follow feature - Visual Studio Tutorial

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Use the Follow feature

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- There's actually two behaviors we should consider when we're talking about focus and following, those are two separate concepts. So, the idea, when you start a new session, let's say we have five people in the session, so it's me and four other people. When they join the session, they're all my followers So as I move through my document, everyone's following my actions. Now we've seen that individuals can go off and do their own thing. As soon as they go off and do their own thing, they're no longer a follower of mine. And with the focus participants, I'm doing two things. I'm setting their document to the same document I'm looking at, but I'm also changing their status back to a follower. Now you can manage followers on your own without having to use the focus participants. So let me show you what I mean. Right now, Terry's not in any file and as I go over here, and move to different documents, she's not…

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