How to Install

Getting Live Share

Installation of Live Share into VS Code is simple, it’s done the same as any other VS Code extension. From the opening window of VS Code, select the extensions page from the left hand side as highlighted in red here:

Fig 2. Extensions Page

From there, use the search field at the top to search for “vs live” or “live share”. Then the following should be visible:

Fig 3. Search

For just the base functionality, the first one on the list, “VS Live Share”, suffices. Simply hit the install button on the bottom right of the box containing the first entry. If you wish, you can click anywhere else on the box and more information describing Live Share will appear on the right side of the page. As it says in the figure above, “VS Live Share Audio” allows one to share the audio of the host computer through the extension. This may or may not be desired and should be installed if that’s a feature you’ll want while working. The “VS Live Share Extension Pack” includes both “VS Live Share” itself and “VS Live Share Audio.” In other words, it just gets the other two mentioned extensions and bundles them into one installation. From there you’re done and you have the functionality installed.