# Visual Studio Live Share API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-visual-studio/live-share-api/  
**Provider:** Microsoft Visual Studio — https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-visual-studio/  
**Base URL:** https://www.npmjs.com/package/vsls  
**Documentation:** https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/live-share

Visual Studio Live Share API is one of 4 APIs that [Microsoft Visual Studio](https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-visual-studio/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Code Collaboration, Pair Programming, and Extensions. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Extension-facing API (via the vsls npm module) that allows other VS Code and Visual Studio extensions to start, join, and end Live Share collaborative sessions and expose shared RPC services to guests.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/
- **SDKs** — https://www.npmjs.com/package/vsls
- **Marketplace** — https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare

## Other Microsoft Visual Studio APIs (3)

- [Visual Studio Extensibility API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-visual-studio/extensibility-api/)
- [Visual Studio Marketplace API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-visual-studio/marketplace-api/)
- [VS Code Extension API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-visual-studio/vscode-extension-api/)

## Tags

Code Collaboration, Pair Programming, Extensions

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