Intellisense is not working in LiveShare for ANY Extension

[kwright02]

The issue #3319 was closed for some unknown reason as the issue was never resolved. Please ether re-open that issue to continue the discussion, or start a new one here.

This has been an on-going problem for years that needs to be addressed

[derekbekoe]

Hi @kwright02 - Please share the following details.

What was your system configuration? Product and Version [VS/VSCode]: OS Version[macOS/Windows]: Live Share Extension Version: Target Platform or Language [e.g. Node.js]:

Steps to Reproduce / Scenario:

[mckzstudios]

Agreed, at my company we get this too.

[setaskin]

Hi, @kwright02 and @mckzstudios, thanks for reporting the issue, we are trying to collect more data to investigate. Would you give us more details by answering following questions. Also, if you have Live Share logs, please attach them here.

What was your system configuration? Product and Version [VS/VSCode]: OS Version[macOS/Windows]: Live Share Extension Version: Target Platform or Language [e.g. Node.js]:

Steps to Reproduce / Scenario:

[CEbbinghaus]

I am encountering the same problem.

What was your system configuration? Product and Version [VS/VSCode]: VSCode OS Version[macOS/Windows]: Windows Live Share Extension Version: v1.0.5862 Target Platform or Language [e.g. Node.js]: Dotnet/CSharp (Omnisharp)

Steps to Reproduce / Scenario:

• Open Visual Studio and share Liveshare session for C# Project
• Try and connect from VSCode with the C# extension installed.
• No intellisense

[travisterrell]

I also experience the same issue each time I use Live Share. This is a pretty major issue for me. I LOVE the idea of Live Share, and regularly try to use it instead of screen sharing when remotely peer programming or helping a coder with a problem they're having. However, as a longtime Visual Studio user, I've become very accustomed to having the assistance Intellisense suggestions provide, so it's a major drawback that I'm unable to see the suggestions when I type in a session.

And to clarify, I don't need to see the host's Intellisense—only my own, when I'm typing. And I should note that while debugging, variable inspection, etc. work fine, just no suggestions.

As a workaround, whenever I find myself needing help from Intellisense, I end up opening the same project locally in a 2nd Visual Studio instance and typing the code there, and then pasting it into the Live Share-connected instance. As you might expect, it's a pretty horrible experience.

Below are details of my setup. I am happy to do any tests or provide any additional information that may help to solve this problem, as I've been craving the promised Live Share experience for years now!

Product and Version [VS/VSCode]: Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise (additionally, Preview) OS Version[macOS/Windows]: Windows 10 Live Share Extension Version: 1.0.5843.1 (latest currently) Target Platform or Language [e.g. Node.js]: C#

Steps to Reproduce / Scenario:

1. Open Visual Studio
2. Connect to a Live Share session hosted by another Visual Studio user via link or invite code.
3. Start typing some code. No Intellisense appears on the screen.

[nassereb]

Pair programming is nearly impossible like this. Please fix this.

I'm running Live Share 2022 v1.0.5883.0

[nickt26]

Hey guys,

I've been testing out live share with a colleague of mine and we found that the intellisense works only if you have the dotnet 7 sdk installed on the host machine

[nassereb]

Hey guys,

I've been testing out live share with a colleague of mine and we found that the intellisense works only if you have the dotnet 7 sdk installed on the host machine

We tried that, but still no intellisense

[TuzioDj]

Im with the same problem. I want to code with friends and intellisense dont work

[GeorgeIpsum]

Hi guys, we are trying to use Live Share at our company for both pair programming and even in coding interview environments. We haven't managed to get intellisense working at all and it's making it very hard for us to continue using it :( would love to contribute to find a fix if possible

[flennic]

We encounter the same issue, no Intellisense or anything at all during a live share session from Visual Studio to Visual Studio Code.

[ikifar2012]

Encountering the same issue with JavaScript and Typescript really annoying

[outragedhuman]

Ran into this Today trying to assist a junior engineer with some test writing. We ended up copying the types we wanted intellisense to reference for us into the file we were working on, and commented them out so we could reference them manually.

Not ideal. Would love to see this fixed!

[SGrondin]

This issue was infuriating to me until I realized it's because I need to mark the workspace as "Trusted". Poor UX design, but it's working well for me now.