I am not able to download any extension via VS Code on my office system due to the proxy. Is there a way that I can do it manually by downloading and placing the downloaded files at the right place?
Download the extension from VSCode marketplace, it'll be a .vsix file, then do like the image below.
You can also use the command-line to install extensions from VSIX files using the --install-extension parameter.
code --install-extension /path/to/vsix
eg: code --install-extension vscodevim.vim
Just in case u have a same UI as mine. Happy coding!
You can also just drop the extension files into the correct folder. On mac, for example, this is ~/.vscode/extensions/. I'm unsure whether it works for all extensions, but it works just fine for a simple language specification.
Two notes when downloading an extension from VScode marketplace:
Version compatibility
Extensions are updated repeatedly on the marketplace. If you download and transfer it to the target computer, it may not work. One can try to look into version history of the extension and download the older version. But it is not easy to correlate the extension version with VSCode version. You can check the version of the extension on the online computer and try to find a match in the marketplace. But sometimes the older versions are not listed there.
Dependencies
An extension may have dependencies. When installing from within VSCode, VScode installs the dependencies for you. Good example is the Python extension that requires few other extension like Jupyter and pylance.
To handle these two cases easier:
1- Install the same VSCode version on the online (access to internet) computer as the offline (no access to internet) target computer.
2- From within the VSCode, install the desired extension. It will install the right version and all the dependencies.
3- Find the folder where extensions are installed. On windows, it is in: C:\Users\USER_NAME\.vscode\extensions. On Linux, it is ib ~/.vscode/extensions.
4- Copy and transfer the extensions to the target offline computer, in the extensions folder.
5- Restart the VSCode to see the extensions.
The below screenshot shows all the extensions that I transferred to have the python extension available on the target computer:
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I'm trying to install a custom version of a VSCode extension without packaging it into a .vsix file. I've copied an existing extension in ~/.vscode-server/extensions/original-extension to ~/.vscode-server/extensions/my-custom-extension with my modifications, but VSCode doesn't seem to detect that it's there: it's not in the Extensions sidebar after reloading the window, etc.
I've also tried and failed to install the custom extension locally in case it was something specific to the remote setup (copying into ~/.vscode/extensions and running VSCode locally), so that doesn't seem to be the issue.
From these (possibly outdated) docs, it seems like side-loading by just copying into the extensions folder should work: https://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/extensions/install-extension/#sharing-privately-with-others-side-loading . Is there a way to get VSCode to detect my extensions folder? What am I missing?
I am developing an extension for VS Code. This extension is already good enough for me to use during daily work, but not good enough to be published (yet). Is there a canonical way to make an unpublished extension under development available to VS Code? Optimally, I would like to always have the current state of the code running.
I did find a way that seems to work, but I'm not sure whether this is a terrible hack or okay: Create a symbolic link in VS Code's extensions directory (~/.vscode/extensions on Linux) to the development directory. Is there a better/official way?
You can package your extension (even if it's in development) using vsce with the command vsce package. This will create a .vsix file which you can install in your regular instance of VSCode in the marketplace menu (click on the ... icon at the top and select "Install from .vsix file).
If you need to view the logs of the extension, go to Help>Toggle Developer tools and use the console to view your extension's output (if there is any).
I have authored a VSCode extension vscode-typer that auto-magically live types code. Great for development demonstrations.
Problem is, while it works in development mode (I have the extension open in VSCode and I use run extension to bring up a test VSCode), however, if I use vsce to make a VSIX file, and then install said VSIX extension, when attempting to use my extension I see the following error: command 'extension.devFestResetMain' not found
I feel like I am missing a magic incantation somewhere...
Reproduction steps: vscode-typer/issues/1
Turns out I was confusing development time dependencies for run time dependencies.
Despite setting the http.proxy setting, I am unable to download extensions (or browse extensions).
I found that if I start the program with --proxy-server=http://myproxy.example.com:3128 then it works.
The code-server used for remote development doesn't support the --proxy-server flag.
The workaround I have found is to manually download the .vsix extension archive for the extension I want to install. e.g. from here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cpptools there's a "Download Extension" drop down on the right under "Resources" where I can download the extension for the server's platform.
Then, move this archive to the target server. Since I'm using an ssh remote, I just scp it over.
Then, install the extension from the archive:
~/.vscode-server/bin/<id>/bin/code-server --install-extension /path/to/archive.vsix
And this should install the extension. I had to restart the editor a few times before the extension showed as installed in the editor as well.
When I try to install any extension in Visual Studio Code (i.e., by pressing Ctrl+P and then running ext install RustyCode), I get a message that No extensions found.
However, this only happens when I run VS Code directly from source repository. I.e., after:
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode.git
cd vscode
git checkout 1.0.0
scripts/code.sh
But, if I run VS Code from official builds, then I'm able to install extensions.
So, how can I enable downloading and installing extensions from Visual Studio Marketplace when I run VS Code directly from source repository? (Is Visual Studio Marketplace integration bundled separately in official builds?)
I'm on Ubuntu/Linux.
This can be fixed by adding following to product.json:
"extensionsGallery": {
"serviceUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery",
"cacheUrl": "https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index",
"itemUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items"
}
(This is can also be fixed by copying product.json from an official build (in the .zip archvie, product.json is under resources/app) which contains above lines).
More information: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1557
You can use code-marketplace extension in AUR to add microsoft marketplace registery in code OSS. This extension will installs a pacman hook that patches the file on every package update.
If you want to do the same for archlinux, have a look here => https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Visual_Studio_Code , you have various possible options to solve the problem.
For Arch linux you could access the product.json file under this path - /usr/lib/code/product.json.
Just edit on the file the extensionsGallery with the following-
"extensionsGallery": {
"serviceUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery",
"cacheUrl": "https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index",
"itemUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items"
}
like #Vikrant Chaudhary said.
Extending the answer from #Vikrant Chaudhary. If anyone wanted to do the same thing on Windows, the path to product.json is here:
Windows path for VSCodium: C:\Program Files\VSCodium\resources\app\product.json