"Couldn't find a compatible version of VS Live Share with this version of Code."

[arc95]

I have the latest preview version (15.6.0 Preview 3.0) on my Win10 x64 machine. Sent the Live Share link to a colleague and he got this message:

Couldn't find a compatible version of VS Live Share with this version of Code.

Does the person who gets the link need to also be running the latest preview version of VS? He has both 2015 and 2017 Pro on his PC. I wanted to share my code and allow us to collaborate on my desktop, not his.

[RyanWilsonBIBend]

@arc95 currently the host and all guests have to be either using VS 15.6.0 Preview 3.0 or later with the VS Live Share extension installed or VS Code Insider (v 1.20 or later iirc) with the VS Live Share extension installed.

Here's a link to the Getting Started page that might have more info useful to you.

[Chuxel]

@RyanWilsonBIBend is correct. Right now all participants need to be on the preview since live share takes advantage of capabilities not in the current stable release of VS but will be in 15.6 once it is released. That said, we are generally recommending people stay on the preview version of VS during the private preview since some of the feature requests in this repository will require alterations to VS itself.

Similarly, technically right now the VS Code extension works on insiders and stable given it's rapid release cadence, however as we add new features during the preview we expect that we'll again need to rely on new VS Code capabilities that would be in Insiders, so we are recommending preview participants use Insiders on an ongoing basis to avoid problems.

[arc95]

Thank you, @RyanWilsonBIBend and @Chuxel.