Release Notes for Live Share Visual Studio Extension Latest - Fix intermittent hangs and unresponsiveness that may happen in Live Share if other extensions register slow trace listeners. - Fix random hangs and slowdowns when user closes VS while it is in Live Share or Codespace session. - Add commandline support to allow solution prescanning when connecting a client to a locally hosted Codespace. - Fix files opening read-only if they are outside of the current folder or solution directory in Codespace. - Remove invalid help text on join collaboration session in devenv /? - Fix an error that may happen when a guest opens a non-text file in a Live Share session. - Improve share performance and VS responsiveness in some conditions - Improve share performance and stability of Codespaces server - Fix an error that may happen in some cases when a user starts or joins a Live Share session. https://developercommunity2.visualstudio.com/t/live-share-collaboration-session-initiat/1052674 - Fix a bug where breakpoints won't be visible to VS guests if there is a space in the source file name. - Fix a bug where edit changes on Codespaces client sometimes may be lost when the user switches from file designer to file editor. - Provide new APIs for ASP.NET debugging in Codespaces to work with forwarded port when the shared port is in use on the client. - Add missing automation property names for Planned session dialog box, so screen reader can read the property name of UI element. - Improve document file path tooltips and grouping for files opened on Codespaces client. - Viewlet Accesibility issues fixed. Accelarator key is added and fixed focus lost issue when item is deleted. - Minor text changes - Allow 3rd party extensions integrate their ServiceHub protected operations with Live Share access control. - Improve error handling when session disconnects while guest opens a shared document. - Fix unexpected extra Save dialogs that may happen when a participant closes document windows in a collaboration session. - Fix "Failed to join a collaboration session, This part...cannot be instantiated" error in VS 16.0 guest. - Fix package load failure that may happen while running unit tests from code if LS extension is disabled. v1.0.3014 (October 15th, 2020) - Fix for a null reference exception that can occur when setting breakpoints in a Live Share session. - Fix to exclude Live Share project stub files from appearing in the Solution Explorer. - Live Share now uses the integrated terminal for all sessions using VS 16.8 and above. - Fix for breakpoints not being respected after a Live Share guest switches roles and starts a Live Share host session. - Fix for language services being broken after closing and reopening a folder/solution. - Add References node as a recognized node type for Codespaces consumption - Fix for "Find All" search not working on the guest side. + Insiders/Preview features - Added support for connecting to codespaces for GitHub repositories. v1.0.2900 (September 25th, 2020) + Updated extensibility NuGet packages to target net472 framework. + Bug fixes to following issues - Fix to improve thrown exception details for the Live Share guest - Fix sharing performance for solutions with lots of files outside solution directory. + New features - Updated to more modern crypto algorithms for key-exchange (DH -> ECDH) and for encryption and message integrity (AES + SHA2 -> AES-GCM) + Insiders/Preview features - Added support for Visual Studio GitHub-integrated authentication + Upcoming features v1.0.2740 (September 1st, 2020) + Bug fixes to following issues - Fix for Language Services in 16.4 and 16.6 (* check) - Fix for hex display of top level variables + Upcoming features - Planned Sessions: Live Share support for sessions that can be scheduled in advance v1.0.2708 (August 26th, 2020) + Bug fixes to following issues - Fix for Live Share join failure in Visual Studio 2017 - Fix for Share and Join auth token issues v1.0.2666 (August 18th, 2020) + Bug fixes to following issues - Update breakpoints in place instead of deleting/recreating - Coediting performance bugs - Codebugging bugs v1.0.2619 (August 11th, 2020) v1.0.2580 (August 4th, 2020) v1.0.2518 (July 23rd, 2020) + Bug fixes to following issues - File download issue v1.0.2517 (July 21st, 2020) + Bug fixes to following issues - Duplicate C# LSP entry from Tools > Options > Text Editor - Rename/Delete folders with illegal characters v1.0.2472 (July 14th, 2020) v1.0.2427 (July 1st, 2020) + Accesibility fixes (invisible separator and unreadable items in viewlet when hovering over in high contrast mode is fixed) v1.0.2377 (June 23rd, 2020) + Authentication fixes for users having multiple accounts v1.02302 (June 10th, 2020) + Setup / initialize fixes + Security fixes + Improvements in progress notifications v1.0.2274 (June 3rd, 2020) + Null Reference crash (status bar) + Fixes for Type Script and Python language services v1.0.2236 (May 21st, 2020) + Fixes applied to contacts being slow to update status + Fix for VS Crashes when using the File menu or the View / Other windows menu (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/1034076/vs-crash-when-menu-view-other-windows-is-opened.html and https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/issues/3542) v1.0.2104 (April 28th, 2020) + Fix for Find All References in TypeScript v1.0.1783 (March 17th, 2020) + Live Share supports [joining from the browser](https://aka.ms/vsls-web) now for all Live Share sessions [Public Preview] v1.0.1349 (December 10th, 2019) + Security fix as described in CVE-2019-1486_ ( http://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1486 ); LiveShare guests are now prompted for consent prior to browsing to host-specified URL. + Contacts released for all VS users_ - We now have contacts for all our Live Share users. These give you the ability to directly invite your frequent and contextual collaborators to a Live Share session. [See how contacts in Live Share work.](https://aka.ms/vsls-contacts) + General bug fixes, particularly in debugging, App Sharing insider feature and VS online support v1.0.1244 (November 13th, 2019) + General support for enabling VS Codespaces launch (formerly called VS Online) v1.0.1056 (October 21st, 2019) + General updates to support launch of new service at Ignite 2019 + General updates to Live Share language services v1.0.950 (October 8th, 2019) + General updates to Live Share services for better performance and reliability v1.0.905 (September 30th, 2019) + Updates to first-user workflow_ - We made some changes to the new user workflow, so they were able to better understand how to use Live Share. v1.0.869 (September 24th, 2019) + General updates to Live Share language services + General updates to Live Share services for better performance and reliability v1.0.17 (April 2nd, 2019) + GA release of LiveShare in Visual Studio