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Tyler James Leonhardt
Tyler James Leonhardt

Reputation: 884

Implementing a Preview channel of a vscode extension

I want to offer a preview version of my vscode extension so that user can get changes more frequently.

Essentially, I'd like to replicate what VSCode does: * Stable: tested changes, happens every month/ad hoc * Insiders: Daily build that gets sent to users

I noticed that the Visual Studio marketplace has a mechanism for marking an extension as "Preview" but this seems to be only cosmetic, in other words, it still overwrites the latest stable version of the extension.

I thought about publishing a new extension and calling that the "Preview" version, but then I want to only allow one of the extensions to be enabled at any given time because it's unclear how my extension will operate if you essentially have 2 extensions installed and running at the same time.

Has anyone tried this before? What's the best way to achieve this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 316

Answers (1)

Matt Bierner
Matt Bierner

Reputation: 65293

This is no way to do this currently. The feature request is tracked here

Existing extensions—such as tslint—publish two versions: a normal release and a preview version

Upvotes: 1

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