Live-share: Support sharing binary files

Created on 3 Apr 2019 · 5Comments · Source: MicrosoftDocs/live-share

Currently, it does not seem Live Share works for editor tabs other than code/text. It would be great if at least sharing the look of an image tab would be possible. I.e.

Start Live Share in Visual Studio for user A
Open Live Share by user B
User A opens an image e.g. Image.png in Visual Studio.
User B cannot see this image or editor tab for the image

Live Share 1.0.17.0 in Visual Studio 2017

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nietras

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@cyberiont @fubaduba

Are there any plans to add this in the near future?
I am currently working on a project with some other people over liveshare, where images are produced as output.
Currently only the host can view the output, but no other participant in the session.

I really think this would be a great (and needed) addition for a good workflow.

dominikheinz on 16 Jun 2020

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I think that a warning should appear that sending binary files over Live Share is not supported. Otherwise people can be confused.
See https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/issues/3308

cyberbiont on 26 Mar 2020

I am trying to visualize an image output from a live share session, but the file is not shown properly. Also when I tried to donwloaded it local it does not work.

piperod on 7 Apr 2020

@cyberiont @fubaduba

I really think this would be a great (and needed) addition for a good workflow.

dominikheinz on 16 Jun 2020

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Hey @lostintangent @daytonellwanger,

Do you have any news on the discussions you planned for the new year on this topic? :)
Thanks in advance!

cmprmsd on 14 Jan 2021

@Davsterl as well.

I think this is a great addition to Live Share, and technically it's pretty easy to achieve. The only barrier is the compliance/regulatory hurdles to overcome, which I don't have a full understanding of.