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
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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 had my project in VS Code's installation directory (C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code) because I don't like that any files related to a program placed all over the PC. Then I decided to update VSCode. After the update the folder where my project was, has gone. Are there any ways to restore it? Atleast some of the files? I'm using Windows 7 and don't have any Git accounts.
Windows build-in restoration tool gives me 1 week old folder of my project. I did alot since then. Sometimes you shouldn't work too hard.
I think your best bet is to look if there is any backup of your windows 7 computer to recover your file.
Looks like i got the same problem, when VS Code updates it updates also its installation directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code, which means any file you create in the installation directory gets deleted, so that's why the Project folder got deleted. It is best to keep your project folders and files in your system for example C:\Projects.. Alternatively you can always use version control ie Git to ensure safety of your code
in our install4j script we are using a prebuild jre. The tar.gz file contains a link for MacOS and Linux. When installing on linux, the link is kept. When installing on MacOS (in Version 8.0.8, it did work in 8.0.4), the link is replaced by a real file.
Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib -> ../Home/jre/lib/jli/libjli.dylib
After installing, the file Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib is not a link any more, but a real file. It seems that the Eclipse-launcher has a problem with this, it does not start with this error:
Error: could not find libjava.dylib
Failed to GetJREPath()
If the file Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib is changed back to a link, the Eclipse-Launcher will start again.
I have a temporary solution in my setup.install4j script to remove that file and create a link (action for both exists), but it would be nice to to modify the links in the tar.gz of a prebuild jre.
To be able to fully sign and notarize a JDK bundle on macOS, the file Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib cannot be a symlink.
See
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8235687
These are new requirements from Apple that have been introduced by notarization.
However, recent JDK versions fix the problems introduced by that change:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8238225
My problem is that the portable version of visual studio code don't load my settings I had copied from the folder %APPDATA%/code/user.
I loaded the .zip data and extracted the folder. I added a data folder into the extracted folder of VS Code. It's in Visual Studio Code\data. In there i copied the folder "user" from %APPDATA%/code/ and renamed the user folder into "user-data". Then I started code and the usersettings are not loaded.
The command .\code.exe --user-directory .\data\user-data won't work.
Is this a bug or did I do something wrong?
In portable mode, the --user-directory command linte option is ignored.
From the documentation:
--user-data-dir <dir>
Specifies the directory that user data is kept in, useful when running as root. Has no effect in Portable Mode.
Instead, use the default location of user data for a portable install and copy your user data to that directory (from a previous comment it seems like you've already done so successfuly).
For anyone wishing to use a different user data directory when in portable mode, symlink-ing the user data folder should be a viable option if on a linux-like platform.
(Trivia: this was at first reported as bug, after which the documentation was updated, rather making it a feature.)
You can simply create a folder called data in the root folder with
VS Code.
After the startup, the files with standard settings will be
created in the data folder.
Then you can just copy the settings from the folder %AppData%\Code\User to the folder data\user-data\User.
To migrate already installed extensions, copy the contents of the %HomePath%\.vscode\extensions folder to the data\extensions folder.
Many thanks in advance, I am using advanced installer 12.1, the scenario is we have already installed application with some custom location feature and is extends the default application location, this installation creates some folders to store temporary files like "Temporary" folder, this folder is used by the application on every minute basis and hence there are some files in this folder, now issue is when i run a new build or try to install the new version of the application, i again select the another custom location, before finishing the installation the installer deleting all the folders installed with older version but not deleting the folders which contains files created by the application e.g the temporary directory above is deleted if it is empty but when it is non-empty it is not removed.
Solution i tried:
1) I used file Removal tool to remove the file, but i think it point the current location and not pointing the older application path.
2) A custom VB script, but again the same issue as #1
3) I tried uninstall cleanup wizard, result #1
Please guide me how i can delete that folder, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks