# microsoft/live-share

Real-time collaborative development from the comfort of your favorite tools

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/live-share
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/live-share
Homepage: http://aka.ms/vsls
License: CC-BY-4.0
License Family: other
Topics: visual-studio, visual-studio-code, pair-programming, collaboration
Last push: 2026-08-03T20:54:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3275, "days_push": 30, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2383, forks 256 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:42.416318+00:00)

## What it is
Visual Studio Live Share is Microsoft's real-time collaborative development service that lets developers share codebases and edit together from Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. This repository hosts its documentation, feedback tracking, and related resources.

## Use cases
- pair program with a teammate in real time
- share a project so a colleague can join and co-edit
- do remote code reviews or interviews in an editor
- collaborate across VS Code and Visual Studio
- troubleshoot code together without screen sharing

## When to choose
- you use Visual Studio or VS Code and want built-in real-time co-editing
- you need shared debugging sessions, terminals, and servers with teammates
- you want collaboration without pushing to a shared repo first

## When to avoid
- you use editors other than VS Code or Visual Studio
- you need fully self-hosted collaboration without Microsoft's service
- you only need asynchronous code review via pull requests

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, documentation
- domain: developer-tools, version-control
- platform: windows, editor-plugin
- tags: pair-programming, real-time-collaboration, visual-studio-code, visual-studio, remote-development, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- microsoft/live-share (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:42.416318+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:34:41.793362+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/live-share (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:42.416318+00:00, sha bf23df052ab7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.