Linux support, the most-requested feature for Visual Studio Code Live Share -- which allows real-time collaboration among developers on different machines and platforms -- was announced this week.

You can use your existing Visual Studio account with Live Share, or you can sign in with a new account if you want to keep Visual Studio and Live Share separate.

Microsoft introduced Visual Studio Live Share to allow dev teams to interactively collaborate by sharing code to edit and debug, troubleshoot, iterate or optimize apps, along with other preview tools.

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that Live Share, its previously announced collaborative development feature for Visual Studio and Visual Studio code, is now available ...

Visual Studio Live Share lets two developers using the same language collaborate. Microsoft initially is optimizing Visual Studio Live Code for C# and JavaScript/Typescript files.

Visual Studio Code 1.100 brings compact editor view Detached editor windows can now be displayed more compactly and the AI-supported GitHub Copilot Chat also receives new functions in this release.