Remote Pair Programming in Visual Studio

Shawn Miller picture Shawn Miller · May 29, 2009 · Viewed 9.7k times · Source

Does anyone know of a Visual Studio add-in that allows remote pair programming in Visual Studio?

Something along the lines of SubEthaEdit, where all users can edit the same document, live, in realtime.

A shared/remote desktop connection where multiple users are in control of the keyboard and mouse is a step in the right direction. However, this solution isn't as good as SubEthaEdit since by default the Visual Studio text editor won't be able to handle simultaneous edits.

Answer

Neil Barnwell picture Neil Barnwell · May 29, 2009

Personally, having done a fair amount of remote pair programming recently, I prefer Join.me. We don't actually both use the keyboard/mouse at the same time, we commit and push changesets using source control and actually swop who is the host.

One of the handful of very popular VNC options would allow both parties to type and have control of the mouse (unlike SharedView, where you have to pass control back and forth), and goes well with Skype voip.