{"id":13703,"date":"2020-05-20T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2562049"},"modified":"2020-05-20T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:15:00","slug":"microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-874016084.jpg?w=730&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Young woman programming at her home office\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudio.microsoft.com\/services\/live-share\/\">Visual Studio Live Share<\/a>&nbsp;is Microsoft&rsquo;s tool for real-time collaborative code editing in the Visual Studio IDE and the Visual Studio Code editor. Earlier this year, the company also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/visualstudio\/liveshare\/quickstart\/browser-join\">launched<\/a>&nbsp;a preview of a browser-based version of the tool. While a shared real-time code editor is great, users always had to rely on additional tools to actually discuss what they were doing. That&rsquo;s changing, however, because at Build 2020, Microsoft today announced that it is adding voice and text chat to this service.<\/p>\n<p>Given the current state of things, any tool that makes it easier to collaborate online is probably a welcome addition to developers&rsquo; toolboxes. Unlike screen shares or other hacks for working together, one nice aspect of Live Share is that individual developers can keep their own, often somewhat idiosyncratic, settings they are used to. Like in most modern collaborative document editors, everybody gets to keep their own cursor, too.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, it doesn&rsquo;t look like the text and voice chat are integrated with any of&nbsp;<a class=\"crunchbase-link\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"microsoft\">Microsoft&rsquo;s&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;other communications tools like Teams, so at least for the time being, what happens in Live Share stays in Live Share.<\/p>\n<div class=\"piano-inline-promo\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>The new features are now in public preview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudio.microsoft.com\/services\/live-share\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/visualstudio.microsoft.com\/services\/live-share\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Frederic Lardinois<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/artificial-intelligence-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Artificial Intelligence Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Frederic Lardinois<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Studio Live Share&nbsp;is Microsoft&rsquo;s tool for real-time collaborative code editing in the Visual Studio IDE and the Visual Studio Code editor. Earlier this year, the company also&nbsp;launched&nbsp;a preview of a browser-based version of the tool. While a shared real-time code editor is great, users always had to rely on additional tools to actually discuss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/\">Continue reading <span>Microsoft&rsquo;s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Visual Studio Live Share&nbsp;is Microsoft&rsquo;s tool for real-time collaborative code editing in the Visual Studio IDE and the Visual Studio Code editor. Earlier this year, the company also&nbsp;launched&nbsp;a preview of a browser-based version of the tool. While a shared real-time code editor is great, users always had to rely on additional tools to actually discuss &hellip; Continue reading Microsoft&rsquo;s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat Continue Reading &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-20T16:15:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-874016084.jpg?w=730&amp;crop=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bilal\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bilal\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/\",\"name\":\"Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat - Business\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-874016084.jpg?w=730&amp;crop=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-20T16:15:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/70b05bacee6cf8a877350412fae25e20\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-874016084.jpg?w=730&amp;crop=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-874016084.jpg?w=730&amp;crop=1\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/\",\"name\":\"Business\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/70b05bacee6cf8a877350412fae25e20\",\"name\":\"Bilal\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/01d05f3f41cc0f9ca88d2011a983bb3f2e83e3e92e3532188bf201df38d2aea8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/01d05f3f41cc0f9ca88d2011a983bb3f2e83e3e92e3532188bf201df38d2aea8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Bilal\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/fc\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/author\/bilal\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat - Business","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat - Business","og_description":"Visual Studio Live Share&nbsp;is Microsoft&rsquo;s tool for real-time collaborative code editing in the Visual Studio IDE and the Visual Studio Code editor. Earlier this year, the company also&nbsp;launched&nbsp;a preview of a browser-based version of the tool. While a shared real-time code editor is great, users always had to rely on additional tools to actually discuss &hellip; Continue reading Microsoft&rsquo;s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat Continue Reading &rarr;","og_url":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/","og_site_name":"Business","article_published_time":"2020-05-20T16:15:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-874016084.jpg?w=730&amp;crop=1","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Bilal","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Bilal","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/","url":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/","name":"Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat - Business","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-874016084.jpg?w=730&amp;crop=1","datePublished":"2020-05-20T16:15:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/70b05bacee6cf8a877350412fae25e20"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-874016084.jpg?w=730&amp;crop=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GettyImages-874016084.jpg?w=730&amp;crop=1"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/20\/microsofts-visual-studio-live-share-gets-built-in-voice-and-text-chat-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio Live Share gets built-in voice and text chat"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/","name":"Business","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/70b05bacee6cf8a877350412fae25e20","name":"Bilal","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/01d05f3f41cc0f9ca88d2011a983bb3f2e83e3e92e3532188bf201df38d2aea8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/01d05f3f41cc0f9ca88d2011a983bb3f2e83e3e92e3532188bf201df38d2aea8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Bilal"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/fc"],"url":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/author\/bilal\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13807,"href":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions\/13807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}