Remote Collaboration for Developers with Microsoft Live Share

1h 19mIntermediate2020-05-28

Authors

Walt Ritscher

Programmer, UI Designer, Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning

Ray Villalobos

Senior Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning

Course details

Remote work is the new normal for many professionals. Software developers acclimating to this new world of work must grapple with the same challenges facing those in other industries. How do you best approach remote collaboration? How do you remain efficient when your living room is now your office? Cloud-based DevOps tools help remote developers manage their source code and build pipelines, and virtual communication tools help them keep in touch with their coworkers. Developers also need tooling to write, review, and pair with other developers in their IDEs and code editors. In this course, staff instructors Walt Ritscher and Ray Villalobos dive into one such tool: Microsoft Visual Studio Live Share. This tool—which is integrated in the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code editor—makes it easy to share, edit, and debug your code without requiring collaborators to install SDKs or clone any repos. Discover how to start a Live Share session, co-debug a project, and more.

Skills covered

Visual StudioTeams and CollaborationWeb Development ToolsSoftware Development ToolsWeb DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementMicrosoftSoftware Development

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Collaborate with Microsoft Live Share
02 - What you should know
03 - How to access the sample code on GitHub

1. Set Up Live Share

04 - Add Live Share to Visual Studio
05 - Sign in to your Microsoft account
06 - Add Live Share to Visual Studio Code
07 - Sign in to your Microsoft account in Visual Studio Code

2. Real-World Example

08 - Explore the chapter scenario
09 - Connect to the session and start a call
10 - Looking at a coworker's code
11 - Follow along with coworker's browser
12 - Edit the coworker's code

3. Start a Live Share Session

13 - Understand the example setup
14 - Start a Live Share session from Visual Studio
15 - Start a Live Share session from Visual Studio Code
16 - Use the contact list to start a Live Share session
17 - Start a Live Share session from the browser
18 - Collaborate via the browser with Visual Studio Online

4. Co-Editing a Project

19 - Prepare the editors for the examples
20 - The example projects and files
21 - See the collaborators in the editor
22 - Understand the Preview tab feature
23 - Finding the guests' edit locations
24 - Use Focus Participants tool in Visual Studio
25 - Use Focus Participants tool in Visual Code
26 - Use the Follow feature
27 - Enjoy IntelliSense in guest session

5. Working with Others

28 - Use read-only mode to prevent editing code
29 - Set guest status
30 - Manage your Live Share session

6. Sharing Resources

31 - Set up an integrated terminal in Visual Studio
32 - Enable the terminal
33 - Share a terminal session
34 - Run an app in a shared terminal
35 - Share a web server

7. Co-Debugging a Project

36 - Set Live Share debug options
37 - Start a debug session
38 - Debug a web application
39 - Rejoin session on startup

What's Next

40 - Next steps