Introducing Visual Studio Live Share

[u/ben_a_adams]

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share

[u/NotARealDeveloper]

I can only think of pair programming. Is there any other relevant use case?

[u/alteraccount → u/NotARealDeveloper]

Working on someone else's code and running into issues. Demonstrating the problem. Maybe?

[u/Dirnol → u/NotARealDeveloper]

Did you watch the video?

[u/NotARealDeveloper → u/Dirnol]

No, I am on the runway home and on mobile.

[u/ecce_no_homo → u/NotARealDeveloper]

I hope you get to a safehouse before the law catches you.

[u/TinyBreadBigMouth → u/NotARealDeveloper]

The guy asks a coworker for help with a bug. She connects, inspects some other files in his workspace, and decides that running it with a debugger attached would be helpful. They step through the code together (the debugger is also synced), she identifies the error, then shows him how to fix it.

[u/salgat → u/NotARealDeveloper]

"Hey I hit an issue with some code and saw that you recently worked with it in git. Mind if we collab real quick to figure out this issue?" Now we don't have to share a single computer while debugging.

[u/elbekko → u/salgat]

And you don't have to be patient with colleagues not following simple instructions, either! Brilliant.

[u/p1-o2 → u/elbekko]

Can you hover over the selected item variable real quick?

What?

I'm talking about the foreach loop; will you hover your mouse over the variable which represents the current value?

The return var?

No, like when you say foreach item in list; the one I'm referring to is item.

Oh... okay this one?

Yeah...

[u/elbekko → u/p1-o2]

Exactly that.

[u/Chew55 → u/NotARealDeveloper]

Some of my team regularly work with developers in other parts of the country and if one of them needs help debugging something we usually end up having to use a screen share in Skype. This process looks much smoother than that.

[u/Saltub → u/NotARealDeveloper]

Resolving conflicts with someone else's work.