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.
You could use microsoft shared view (although you can't type concurrently, you can point to things with a mouse trail).
And use skype for the conversation part.
UltraVNC would allow both parties to type and have control of the mouse (unlike SharedView, where you have to pass control back and forth). Goes well with Skype voip.
Skype could handle it. One of the tenets of pair programming is that only one person is at the keyboard and mouse, so all you really need is one-direction screen casting and voice chat.
Hello!! We are working on this. You can use beWeeVee.com by now as a workaround. Meanwhile we are working on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwXNk-lCIdg
We'll welcome your feedback!!
Thanks in advance!
I've just tried a 2,5 h session via Remote Assistance in Windows and that worked pretty good. The most annoying thing was that I couldn't find a way to get it running in fullscreen.
We used Skype for audio and are thinking about running with a webcam as well.
Think I'll try TeamViewer the next time!
Have a look at http://www.instantreview.de - a real-time collaborative coding extension for Visual Studio, based on P2P.
take a look on http://www.wave-vs.net, it is more than a collaborative editor, is a Visual Studio Real-Time Collaboration Platform for team work Development supporting built-in Pair Programming.
•Implements Google Wave Protocol.
•Integrates with Major Source Control Version (SVN, TFS, VSS).
•Support Server Federation (you can setup multiple servers on different locations and make each one communicate to the others).
•Do not relay on Google infraestructure, you setup your own wave-vs.net Servers, you manage them and you choose how to handle all comunnications.
•All communications are TLS encrypted.
•Has embedded communications (IM, Conference Rooms...)
•With the Client is also install on your computer a wave-vs.net Personal Wave Server (PWS); You can use it to work together with other colleague, it is limited to up to two concurrent connections, if you need more than this, there is wave-vs.net Enteprise Server with unlimited number of connections, (the one supporting Server Federation).
it is on pre-release state, release version will be available around march 2010...
This release has built-in support for Vs2008, for Vs2010 will be released just when we get release version for Vs2010 and can check everything
For a complete list of features take a look on above link :) or go directly to Complete Feature List (http://www.wave-vs.net/product_features5.aspx)
If you want you can test pre-release :) just asking for a pre-release License Key, (follow instruction on email you receive with download instructions for wave-vs.net pre-release.
Enjoy!
Jesus.
Try http://visualstudio.beweevee.com is a light add-in which is free while is in beta.