Allow guests to start a build or debugging session on the host's behalf

[Chuxel]

Note that developers starting the collaboration session (host) do not have this limitation. It is specific to participants joining a session.

Currently the developer that started the collaboration session (host) is the only one that can trigger a build or start a debugging session. While it provides the owner a high degree of control, the downside of this approach is that guests will be unable to start a build or debug while the owner is away temporarily. We could allow guests to run a build or start a debugging session to solve this challenge.

[tdd]

Def a good idea for tiny sessions, but on 3+ sessions it might be good to let the host disable that possibility through a flag.

[lostintangent]

This has been resolved in the latest version of VS Live Share 🔥 It’s disabled by default, but the host can now set flags to allow the guest to start debugging as well as run tasks/build. Check out the release notes for more details. Thanks everyone for the feedback!

[jfacoustic]

@lostintangent Can you specify which release was this resolved in or post a link to those specific release notes?

[KL13NT]

Could this behaviour somehow be indicated in the extension itself? I had to look for this issue to find out how to enable this, if it's available at all. The error message could definitely be improved a bit, at least to provide a link to this issue.

[jn-coal]

@lostintangent Can you specify which release was this resolved in or post a link to those specific release notes?

here:

If you open the Settings window, and then search for livesharedebug, you'll find the Enable Guest Debug Control setting. If you check that, then guests can start the debugger on their own. We turn this off by default as a security mechanism.