This page mentions VSCode 1.70.3 is the last release supporting Windows 7.
There's no download for that version listed at uptodown, and there's no tag for it in the github repository.
Where I can I download that version? What changed in it compared to 1.70.2 (e.g. this answer hints possibly something about PID in debug windows?), and where can I download the source code?
Here's a link that I've uploaded from my Temp folder after my VS Code was done updating: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DRoY4c1lhoX9n0jM1Dy0tNr4Wks4CD74/view?usp=sharing
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I'm looking to install an older version of the VSCode jupyter extension. (The reason is that I'm using a VSCode build from Code Server which is as of VSCode v1.57.1 - released this summer - and I'd like to install extensions for it). It looks like the Jupyter Extension version 2021.6.9999 is the newest version of the Jupyterhub plugin that supports VSCode version v1.57.1.
However, the marketplace only displays the last 5 extension versions under the "Version History" section of the landing page. These versions listed are all too new.
I'm able to find the source code for Jupyter version 2021.6.9999 on Github, but the vsix binaries are not there. I'm not sure how to compile it; seems like it'd be a pretty involved process.
Is there an archive of the vsix plugin files going back further than just 5 releases? Those versions were available earlier this year, so it seems like there should be a way to access the older vsix extensions somewhere. Any thoughts is much appreciated.
Marketplace not showing the older versions, but you can download .vsix files from marketplace anyway.
Copy below link and paste your browser, it will download jupyter
version 2021.6.999662501, you can download any vsix binary with this method, just change version name from URL.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/ms-toolsai/vsextensions/jupyter/2021.6.999662501/vspackage
Also, there is a site to download older vsix files: https://www.vsixhub.com/history/43174/
How can find the version number?
I research the source code and see version number format <year>.<month>.<build_number> from here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#versioning
GitHub Actions create releases and upload to marketplace when triggered. There is no human interaction. If you research Github Actions pipelines you can find version numbers. For an example:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/runs/3765342614?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:169
A newer VSCode feature makes it easier.
Right click on the extension in the Extension tab. It will display an option "Install another version". From this menu you can install the desired version.
You can try
Go to https://web.archive.org/
Search for the package using original marketplace URL
Click on a date
Right click on download button and copy the URL
Remove everything before HTTPS://
Open remaining URL in browser
Cheers :)
Example
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AndersLaublaubplusco.SitecoreHelixVisualStudioTemplates
https://web.archive.org/web/20210116094649/https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AndersLaublaubplusco.SitecoreHelixVisualStudioTemplates
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AndersLaublaubplusco.SitecoreHelixVisualStudioTemplates
search for respective date
I am trying to install the ssh vscode extension offline by Install from VSIX. However, there is an error saying Unable to install extension 'ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh' as it is not compatible with VS Code '1.39.2'. Is there a table in which I can get the correct match between my vscode and extensions?
There does not appear to be a table listing all of the versions for the Remote - SSH extension. The package does not include a changelog file, and the github page is just a placeholder for filing issues (so there's no useful history information there either).
However, the marketplace page has a "Version History" tab. That tab only lists the past five versions (0.55.0 to 0.62.0 at time of writing), but hovering the mouse on a link shows the URL pattern, so if you know or can guess the names of past versions then you can download them. For example, I guessed that 0.45.0 probably existed, and indeed it does: link to version 0.45.0.
Having downloaded the vsix file, you can unpack it by renaming the extension to zip and using any tool that understands the zip format (since that is what vsix is). Then check the package.json inside it to see which version it requires. In the case of 0.45.0, I see:
...
"engines": {
"vscode": "^1.36.0"
},
...
meaning that version works with VSCode 1.36.0 and (in theory) greater.
You could keep doing that, using binary search, to find the best match for your version of VSCode.
If you need to do this for another extension(s), and that extension does have a changelog file, it should be linked on the Version History tab as well as contained in the latest vsix package, and reading that may be easier than binary searching among downloads, depending on how it is written.
I typically update the standard version of Visual Studio Code by clicking Help => Check for Updates (or just letting it update automatically in the background), but this option is missing from the Help menu in the portable version. Furthermore, it doesn't update automatically in the background despite the fact that I haven't overridden the following default settings:
"update.channel": "default",
"update.enableWindowsBackgroundUpdates": true,
Are there any other ways to update the portable version of Visual Studio Code, or do I have to manually uninstall/reinstall it every time a major update is released?
After unzipping the VS Code download, simply create a data folder within Code's folder:
|- VSCode-win32-x64-1.25.0-insider
| |- Code.exe (or code executable)
| |- data
| |- ...
The data folder can be moved to other VS Code installations. This is useful for updating your portable Code version: simply move the data folder to a newer extracted version of VS Code.
On Windows and Linux, you can update VS Code by copying the data folder over to a more recent version of VS Code.
From their docs
If you are using the one that is downloaded from github, you can just set up a github repository in your pc, pull from the github repo, and check for updates from time to time.
There is no "check for updates" when using the standalone/no install version.
What is best way to update a standalone version without losing settings etc.?
According to my experience (VSCode in a standalone .zip file uncompressed in D:\ using Win7 OS) you just need to download and uncompress the archive containing the new version (v 1.41.1).
When you run Code.exe in the new folder, your settings file is used and everithing is OK. (then, when you are really really sure that it is everithing OK, you could delete the old version).
If you changed the default settings file location, take a look at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings#_settings-file-locations
From the official doc it says when downloaded through zip file, one has download the release manually for each update and place the unzip version inside the Program files (Windows).
According to the special portable page all the settings, plugins, etc. of the standalone version
are stored in the data-folder. So assuming you called your vscode-folder vscode:
download the new version
unpack to vscode2 folder adjacent to current vscode
move data folder from vscode to vscode2
delete old vscode-folder
rename vscode2 to vscode
done
P.S.: Current portable versions notify about new version, but clicking on it leads to download, so above list still applies.
Edit 2020/08/04: To make a "normal" install portable one just needs to create the data folder inside the installation/unpack directory of VSC.
To download the old archive, replace user|system with archive in the URL.
Before:
https://update.code.visualstudio.com/1.69.2/win32-x64-user/stable
After:
https://update.code.visualstudio.com/1.69.2/win32-x64-archive/stable
Has anyone tried to use the latest stats extension 1.3.1? I have tried, but when I unzip the file there is no stats.jar or stats.jar.gz files, like there was in the 1.2.1 version. If you have used it how did you get it to work?
I need it because it has a beta distribution function and is also easier to get up an running than the R extension (I have a locked down system).
The stats.jar file was missing from release v1.3.1. There is now a new release, v1.3.2, that contains stats.jar.
It seems like the jars have not been packaged with the currently available release at https://github.com/cstaelin/Stats-Extension/releases/tag/v1.3.1.
This is most likely a simple oversight from the author. I have opened an issue on GitHub.
In the meanwhile, you can still get an old jar from the git archive or try to build the extension yourself.