

Start by clicking your username in the bottom status bar and choose Start Collaboration Session from the available options. As you’ll see, you will be granting users certain access that can be detrimental if used incorrectly. Be sure to only share live sessions with people you trust.

Step 2 - Sharing and Joining a SessionĪfter you’re all signed in, you’re ready to create a session to share with others. To sign in, use the Sign In button in the bottom status bar with the person icon. As of now, you can choose to log in with a Microsoft or GitHub account.

In VS Code, you can open up the extensions tab, search for Live Share, click install, and then reload when the install is finished.Īfter that, you’ll need to sign in. The first step to taking advantage of Live Share is to install it as an extension. This tutorial will focus on the Live Share extension. There is also a Live Share Extension Pack that combines Live Share and Live Share Audio extensions. VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VS Code.Note: Modern versions of Visual Studio Code now include Live Share by default. If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. Therefore, you generate a “clean” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license. When we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer: Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.
